The Diary of A Plain Girl: A story that shows a glimpse into the mind of a low self esteem woman

Amy Levy was born in London, England in 1861, the second of seven in a fairly wealthy Anglo-Jewish family. The children of the family read and participated in secular literary activities becoming firmly integrated into Victorian life.

Amy was educated at Brighton High School, Brighton, and studied at Newnham College, Cambridge; she was the first Jewish student when she arrived in 1879, but left after four terms.

But her writing career was to begin early; her poem "Ida Grey" appearing when she...