Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev

Her death was reported widely in the press. Flaubert allegedly wrote in a letter that [a]t her funeral I cried like an ass, and the Russian writer Turgenev pronounced on her passing: What a...

She read voraciously, preferring writers with the geographical rootedness which she herself lacked: George Eliot , Thomas Hardy , Charles Dickens , and from beyond the English tradition Marcel Proust , James Joyce , Henry James

It was, she said later, through reading that I passed from childhood to adulthood, first through a chance encounter with Eliot 's Adam Bede (and that was the end of the school stories)...

Distinguished guests at Newnham at this time included Ruskin and Turgenev ; JEH recalls giving them tours of the college in her Reminiscences of a Student's Life. A great admirer of George Eliot

In Paris his friend Ivan Turgenev introduced him to Maupassant , Zola , and Daudet , among others.

As a child she had already met several distinguished writers in England, and Mary Clarke Mohl and Turgenev in France. As a young adult she quickly became known to many eminent members of the...

MBE set a great deal of store by meeting men distinguished as authors or in other fields, as a spur to literary achievement of her own. She was given to boasting of her acquaintance with...

ME 's father, who admired her, wished to wring recognition for her from others. His efforts may well have been counter-productive. One result, even during her lifetime, was suspicion that he had written some parts...

This title echoes Turgenev 's A Month in the Country. Set between the wars at Castle Kirna, a dilapidated, imaginary country estate at Brandys not far from Prague, this novel (like the two...

As a child Betty Coles (later ET ) wrote plays (with very short scenes each demanding a new and elaborate setting) and stories. She said she always wanted to be a novelist. At twelve...

The book was widely and favourably reviewed. Lady Rhondda found it [e]xtraordinarily interesting. I sat up reading it till long past my usual bedtime and have been reading it again all this morning.Virginia Woolf

While some reviewers criticised this novel as superficial, the New York Times found in it a brisk but sympathetic discourse upon human folly and the blind fanaticism of people determined to preserve an outmoded way...

Sean O'Faolain , who discovered this novel eight years after it was published, was captivated. He called it a miracle, a beautifully written work of romantic genius composed realistically, worthy of Turgenev .

CG produced the first translation into English of the complete works of Ivan Turgenev .

CG published her last book, a translation from Turgenev entitled Three Plays.