Constance GarnettConstance Garnett was an English translator who, in the first half of the 20th century, made the great works of Russian literature available to English and American readers. She was born on December 19, 1861, in Brighton, Sussex, and died on December17, 1946, in Eden bridge, Kent. She also translated all of Turgenev, Gogol, and the key Tolstoy works. She was the first to translate Dostoyevsky and Chekhov into English. At a time when women rarely attended colleges and universities, she was awarded a scholarship to Newnham College in Cambridge in 1879. Following her marriage to the critic Edward Garnett and the birth of their son David, the future author, in 1892, she began her career as a translator with Ivan Goncharov's (1847), which she translated as Tragic Story (1894). In total, she translated more than 70 books of Russian literature. David Garnett, her only child, and a biologist by training went on to write books, including the well-known Lady into Fox (1922). Garnett was elderly and partially blind by the late 1920s. After Turgenev's Three Plays was published in 1934, she stopped translating. She isolated herself after the 1937 passing of her spouse. Read More Read Less