Constance Garnett

Author, Translator

1861 – 1946

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Who was Constance Garnett?

Constance Clara Garnett was an English translator of nineteenth-century Russian literature. Garnett was one of the first English translators of Leo Tolstoy, Fyodor Dostoyevsky and Anton Chekhov and introduced them on a wide basis to the English-speaking public.

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Born
Dec 19, 1861
Brighton
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Religion
  • Atheism
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Education
  • Newnham College, Cambridge
Died
Dec 17, 1946

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on July 23, 2013

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