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The Romance of a Shop - Paperback

by Amy Levy
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Availability:In StockContributor:Amy Levy, Ruth Madievsky (With), Rachel León (With)Series:Smith & Taylor Classics #9Publish date:10/28/2025Pages:150
Language:EnglishPublisher:Smith & Taylor ClassicsISBN-13:9781961884649ISBN-10:196188464XUPC:9781961884649Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:Classics, Women, World LiteratureBook Topic:EnglandSize:7.60 x 5.00 x 0.70 inchesWeight:0.4012Product ID:SCBEDN92Y0
Amy Levy's The Romance of a Shop (1888) follows the four Lorimer sisters in the wake of their father's death.

Penniless and reliant on each other, they decide to open a photography studio at 20B Baker Street, offering the citizens of London quality portraits. It's the 1880s and photography is not only growing in popularity and accessibility, but those with a critical eye are elevating the medium associated with quick and steady cash into a true art form.

With more women entering the workforce out of necessity and rebellion, the Lorimer sisters take advantage of newfound independence as they work to survive poverty, the grind and smoke of London, fraught courtships, and melodramatic twists of fate. A novel of sisterhood, love, the female gaze and postmortem photography Levy deftly balances along the thin lines of romance and realism, art and commerce.

Language:EnglishPublisher:Smith & Taylor ClassicsISBN-13:9781961884649ISBN-10:196188464XUPC:9781961884649Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:Classics, Women, World LiteratureBook Topic:EnglandSize:7.60 x 5.00 x 0.70 inchesWeight:0.4012Product ID:SCBEDN92Y0
León, Rachel: - Rachel León is a writer, editor, and social worker based in Rockford, IL. She is the Managing Director for Chicago Review of Books and Fiction Director for Arcturus. Her work has appeared in The Rumpus, Catapult, LA Review of Books, and elsewhere. She is the editor of The Rockford Anthology (Belt Publishing, 2025) and the author of the novel, How We See the Gray (Curbstone Books, 2026).Smith, Allison Miriam: -

Allison Miriam Smith is a co-founder of Smith & Taylor Classics. She is also an Acquiring Editor and Publishing & Publicity Manager for Unnamed Press. She graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in English & Creative Writing from the University of Southern California where she was an assistant curator for the USC Doheny Library George Cassady Lewis Carroll Special Collection. She later went on to earn a Masters in 18th & 19th c. Literature from the University of Edinburgh, Scotland, working nights at the library. Before Unnamed Press, she was a bookseller at Skylight Books in Los Angeles, CA.

Madievsky, Ruth: - Ruth Madievsky is the author of the national bestselling novel, All-Night Pharmacy, winner of the California Book Award and the National Jewish Book Award for Debut Fiction, and a finalist for the Lambda Literary Award. Her work appears in The New York Times, The Atlantic, The Los Angeles Times, The Cut, Harper's Bazaar, and elsewhere. Originally from Moldova, she lives in Los Angeles, where she works as a clinical pharmacist.
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Publisher: Smith & Taylor Classics

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Amy Levy, Ruth Madievsky (With), Rachel León (With)

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Amy Levy

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