Garnett, Constance
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| Birthname | Constance Clara Black | ||||
| born on | 19 December 1861 at 11:00 (= 11:00 AM ) | ||||
| Place | Brighton, England, 50n50, 0w08 | ||||
| Timezone | GMT h0e (is standard time) | ||||
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| Astrology data |   27°36'   21°32 Asc. 22°51'
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Biography
English translator of 71 volumes 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. She died on 17 December 1946 at The Cearne, Crockham Hill, Kent.
Relationships
- parent->child relationship with Garnett, David (born 9 March 1892)
- has other family relationship with Garnett, Angelica (born 25 December 1918). Notes: Mother-in-law/daughter-in-law
Events
Source Notes
Sy Scholfield quotes from "Constance Garnett: a heroic life" by Richard Garnett (Sinclair-Stevenson, 1991), p. 11: "She herself was born at eleven a.m. on 19 December 1861."
Categories
- Vocation : Writers : Translator
