Isabel Florence Hapgood

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Isabel Florence Hapgood (November 21, 1850 - June 26, 1928) was an U.S. writer and translator of Russian texts.

Hapgood was born in Boston. She studied Germanic and Slavic languages. She traveled through Russia between 1887 and 1889, meeting Leo Tolstoy. Hapgood died in New York.

[edit] Own works

  • Russian Rambles (1895)
  • A Survey of Russian Literature (1902)
  • Little Russian and St. Petersburg Tales (Date Unknown)

[edit] Translations

  • Childhood, Boyhood, Youth, Life (1888), and Sevastopol (1888) by Leo Tolstoy
  • The Epic Songs of Russia. (Date unknown)
  • Taras Bulba and Dead Souls by Nikolay Gogol
  • Les Misérables (1887), Notre Dame de Paris (1888), and Toilers of the Sea (1888) by Victor Hugo
  • Recollections and Letters (1892) by Ernest Renan
  • The Revolution of France Under the Third Republic (1897) by Pierre de Coubertin
  • Foma Gordyeef (1901) and Orloff and His Wife (1901) by Maksim Gorky
  • The Brothers Karamazov (1905) by Fyodor Dostoevsky
  • The Seagull (1905) by Anton Chekhov
  • The Village (1923) by Ivan Bunin

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Persondata
NAME Hapgood, Isabel Florence
ALTERNATIVE NAMES
SHORT DESCRIPTION translator and writer
DATE OF BIRTH November 21, 1850
PLACE OF BIRTH Boston
DATE OF DEATH June 26, 1928
PLACE OF DEATH New York