Garnett, Constance, 1861-1946
Enlarge text Shrink text-
Personality
|
מספר מערכת
987007463234805171
Information for Authority record
Name (Latin)
Garnett, Constance, 1861-1946
Other forms of name
Garnett, Constance Black, 1862-1946
Garnett, Constance, 1862-1946
Date of birth
1861-12-19
Date of death
1946-12-17
Place of birth
Brighton (England)
Field of activity
Translating and interpreting
Occupation
Translators
Associated Language
eng rus
Gender
female
MARC
MARC
Sources of Information
- Tolstoy, L. "The Kingdom of God is within you," 1984:CIP t.p. (Constance Garnett)
1 / 2
Constance Garnett with her son, mid-1890s
Unknown author, Public domain
File:Constance Garnett with her son, mid-1890s.jpg
Unknown author, Public domain
Wikipedia description:
Constance Clara Garnett (née Black; 19 December 1861 – 17 December 1946) was an English translator of nineteenth-century Russian literature. She was the first English translator to render numerous volumes of Anton Chekhov's work into English and the first to translate almost all of Fyodor Dostoevsky's fiction into English. She also rendered works by Ivan Turgenev, Leo Tolstoy, Nikolai Gogol, Ivan Goncharov, Alexander Ostrovsky, and Alexander Herzen into English. Altogether, she translated 71 volumes of Russian literature, many of which are still in print today.
Read more on Wikipedia >