Constance Garnett

During the first half of the twentieth century, CG translated over seventy volumes of Russian literature. At the expense of her eyesight, she translated the major works of Tolstoy , Gorky , and others, and produced the first English translations of Dostoevsky and Chekhov . Critic Carolyn Heilbrun suggests that she was largely responsible for the part Russian literature had played in the transition from Victorian letters to twentieth-century realism.