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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.
28 de jun. de 2023 · Soon she met Edward Garnett, an aspiring literary critic and editor. Edward was more skeptical than his girlfriend when it came to revolutionary politics.
Ernest Hemingway was one of many who admired her Dostoyevskys, as well as her Tolstoys. “I remember,” he told a friend, “how many times I tried to read War and Peace until I got the Constance Garnett translation.”. Not everyone shared his opinion. One critic described her Chekhov as a Victorian death rattle.
Died: 17 December 1946. Country most active: United Kingdom. Also known as: Constance Clara Black. Lovers of reading owe a debt to Brighton’s Constance Garnett (1861 – 1946), the first person to translate the work of iconic Russian novelists into English. Born in 1861 in Ship Street, Constance was the younger sister of Clementina who was to ...
Constance Black was born in 1861, the fifth of eight children. She was exceptionally bright and, at the age of 17, got a place at Cambridge University to study classics. For the first time, she had independence and a room of her own, although the college food, it seems, left much to be desired. She particularly excelled at translation, and her ...
spouse Edward Garnett. son David Garnett. 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.
30 de out. de 2005 · October 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 ...
