Background
Bernstein was born in London in 1846 to Thoedore Bernstein, a Jewish emigrant from Germany and Lydia Pulsford, an Anglican mother from Marylebone.
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She suffered from debilitating infirmity in her childhood, and suffered illness throughout her adult life. In Glasgow she supported herself by teaching piano lessons. After the revival of her work in the 1990s, Bernstein"s works were included in several prominent critical studies of Scottish poetry, such as Mungo’s Tongues, Glasgow Poets Past and Present, A History of Scottish Women's Writing, The New Penguin Book of Scottish Verse, and The Edinburgh History of Scottish Literature.
However, a significant portion of her work remained unpublished.
In 2013 Bernstein"s collected poems were published as A Song of Glasgow Town. This collection included poems from Mirren"s Musings, as well as several poems published elsewhere and fifteen previously unpublished works.
