Author: Emma Anna Germains
Author: Emma Anna Germains (1852–1897)
Alternate Name(s): Levetus (maiden name)
Biography: Emma Anna Germains was born in 1852 in Birmingham, the daughter of the Romanian Jew Lewis Levetus and his English-born wife Celia. She worked briefly as a teacher before marrying inventor Adolph Zalkin Germains, a Jew who fled Russia. The couple soon after moved to America where their eldest son was born. While there, Germains wrote and self-published her only novel, Left to Starve, a compelling story of Anglo-Jewish life. In the 1880s, the family returned to London where an English publisher reprinted her novel. Sadly, the 1891 census shows Germains confined to an asylum in Shoreditch. She died a few years later on 17 September 1897.
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References: British Census (1861, 1871, 1891)
Fiction Titles:
- Left to Starve and No One Wants the Blame. 1 vol. London: Simpkin, 1880.