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 of Dostoyevsky and Chekhov, and one of the first translators to render almost all works by Turgenev, Goncharov, Ostrovsky, Herzen, and Tolstoy into English. All together, she translated 71 volumes of Russian literature, many of which are still in print today.
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19 December 1861 Brighton, England
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Died |
17 December 1946 (aged 84) The Cearne, Crockham Hill, Kent, England
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Zodiac | Sagittarius |
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