Constance Garnett, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Constance Garnett

translator

Date of Birth: 19-Dec-1861

Place of Birth: Brighton, England, United Kingdom

Date of Death: 17-Dec-1946

Profession: translator, linguist

Nationality: United Kingdom

Zodiac Sign: Sagittarius

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.
Altogether, she translated 71 volumes of Russian literature, many of which are still in print today.