Constance Garnett | |
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 Constance Garnett with her son David in the mid-1890s | |
| Born | Constance Clara Black 19 December 1861 Brighton, England |
| Died | 17 December 1946 (aged 84) The Cearne, Crockham Hill, Kent, England |
| Occupation | Translator |
| Language | English |
| Education | Brighton and Hove High School |
| Alma mater | Newnham College, Cambridge |
| Spouse | Edward Garnett |
| Children | David Garnett |
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 to render numerous volumes of Anton Chekhov's work into English and the first to translate almost all of Fyodor Dostoevsky's fiction into English. She also rendered works by Ivan Turgenev, Leo Tolstoy, Nikolai Gogol, Ivan Goncharov, Alexander Ostrovsky, and Alexander Herzen into English. Altogether, she translated 71 volumes of Russian literature, many of which are still in print today.