Nevertheless, she wrote throughout her whole life and published some fifty poems in the journal Kochbe Yitzhak (כוכבי יצחק, 'The Stars of Isaac').

The first and most evident is their following the accepted cultural conventions of contemporary masculine poetry, exploiting the writer's broad knowledge of the canon.

On this level we hear the voice of a woman describing her suffering and protesting her inferior status in Jewish society and culture.Today Morpurgo has attracted attention as an early feminist poet.

For instance, in "On Hearing She Had Been Praised in the Journals" (1847): I've looked to the north, south, east, and west: a woman's word in each is lighter than dust.

[5] In Morpurgo's time, Jewish women were rarely taught Hebrew, which was considered strictly the province of men and suitable only for religious subjects and discourse.

In addition, the endorsement of her highly respected cousin Samuel David Luzzatto gave her prominence that would have been hard to attain on her own.