In a letter to Helena Sickert dated October 1887, Oscar Wilde called "The Recent Telepathic Occurrence at the British Museum" a "real literary gem" and wrote that its author, Amy Levy, "has a touch of genius in her work." He published this story and others by Levy in his literary magazine Woman's World. During her short lifetime she wrote three novels, three volumes of poetry, a privately published drama, translations, and several essays in addition to her frequent short stories for Victorian periodicals, some of which appeared unsigned. She is perhaps best known as a minor poet and novelist who committed suicide at age twenty-seven. While she remained forgotten during most of the twentieth century, interest in her work is growing. A 1993 collection of her works, edited by Melvyn New, includes her complete novels and selections from her poems, short stories, and nonfiction. As he notes in his introduction...