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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.
Constance Garnett (born December 19, 1861, Brighton, East Sussex, England—died December 17, 1946, Edenbridge, Kent) was an English translator who made the great works of Russian literature available to English and American readers in the first half of the 20th century.
Nov 12, 2019 · The one I hold dear to my own dusha, as a woman, and as a translator, is Constance Garnett. Born in Brighton in 1861, Garnett translated 70 volumes from Russian, including all Dostoyevsky’s baggy monsters.
Oct 30, 2005 · Constance Garnett’s versions of the great Russians inspired Hemingway but outraged exiled writers. Illustration by Edward Sorel. In the early seventies, two young playwrights, Christopher...
Jun 28, 2023 · The radical politics of Russian literature’s most famous English translator, Constance Garnett.
Constance Garnett. When I was allowed to leave the children’s library and join the grown-ups library next door, it was like being let loose in a giant sweetshop, and, for reasons I still don’t quite understand, I felt drawn to a hexagonal bookshelf at the far end of the library.
Nov 7, 2019 · Constance Garnett: A Heroic Translator. In the midst of Mud and Stars: Travels in Russia with Pushkin and Other Geniuses of the Golden Age, Sara Wheeler takes a detour to a fellow...
Apr 7, 2020 · A Life in Text: the Biographical Material in Constance Garnett’s Translations - Natasha Randall. In this talk Natasha Randall explores the task of biographical research into the figure of the literary translator Constance Garnett.
Prolific English translator of 19th-century Russian literature. Born Constance Clara Black in Brighton, England, on December 19, 1862; died on December 17, 1946, in Edenbridge, England; daughter of David Black (a coroner) and Clara (Patten) Black; educated by home tutoring; attended Brighton High School, Newnham College Association for Advanced ...
Constance Black married Edward Garnett, some seven years her junior, and thus entered a remarkable literary family. Her father-in-law, Richard Garnett, for many years superin-tendent of the British Museum reading room, was an eminent translator and author (The Twilight of the Gods); her husband Edward Garnett was a critic, essayist, and writer; her
