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Born in Brighton in 1861, Constance Clara Garnett (nee Black)
was the sixth of eight children. Educated at Newnham College,
Cambridge she studied Latin and Greek, as well as Russian. She
married Edward Garnett in 1889 and they had one son, David.
It was on a visit to Russia in 1893 that Garnett met Leo Tolstoy
and this meeting prompted her to begin translating the Russian
literature that she was most passionate about. As a translator of
Gogol, Tolstoy, Pushkin, Turgenev, Chekhov and Dostoevsky among
others, Constance Garnett translated about 70 Russian works and
received great acclaim from writers such as D. H. Lawrence and
Joseph Conrad. Her translations had a major effect on readers and
were reprinted well into the twentieth century.
First published in 1991 and written by her grandson Richard
Garnett, Constance Garnett is the biography of an extraordinary
woman who, in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries,
made Russian literature available to the English speaking
public.
'When you come to the last page you feel you have travelled
through life with a peculiarly British heroine, self-effacing,
frugal, honourable, clear-thinking, brave, and above all a worker
on a scale that can only be called heroic.' Claire Tomalin,
"Independent on Sunday"
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Tennyson (Hardcover)
G. K. Chesterton, Richard Garnett
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R724
Discovery Miles 7 240
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Tennyson (Paperback)
G. K. Chesterton, Richard Garnett
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R368
Discovery Miles 3 680
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