Parents Isabelle (Levin) and Lewis Levy; first Jewish woman to enter Newnham College, Cambridge, where published first volume of verse. Friend of Oscar Wilde, Olive Schreiner and Richard Garnett; travelled on the Continent, writing on Jewish affairs; novel, Reuben Sachs, published 1888; melancholic, feminist, radical, she committed suicide.
Xantippe and Other Verse (London, 1881); A Minor Poet and Other Verse (London, 1884); A London Plane Tree and Other Verse (London, 1889).