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Hapgood, Isabel Florence, 1850-1928

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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.

Own works

  • Russian Rambles (1895)
  • A Survey of Russian Literature (1902)

Translations

  • Childhood, Boyhood, Youth, Life (1888), and Sevastopol (1888) by Leo Tolstoy
  • 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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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

This biographical information was gathered from the Isabel_Florence_Hapgood page, courtesy of the Wikipedia project.

Books

The Census in Moscow
Les Miserables
Notre-Dame De Paris
A Reckless Character And Other Stories
Russian Rambles
A Survey of Russian Literature, with Selections
What to Do? Thoughts Evoked By the Census of Moscow

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