Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky

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Standard Name: Dostoevsky, Fyodor Mikhailovich
Used Form: Dostoyevsky

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Anthologization Anna Livia
Anna Livia has published her short stories in such periodicals as Spinster, Sinister Wisdom, Lesbian Ethics, and Girljock. She has also included her fiction in anthologies edited by Lilian Mohin ,...
Education Dora Carrington
Carrington began to alter herself in other ways also. During her first term at the Slade she began to go by her surname only.
Hill, Jane, and Michael Holroyd. The Art of Dora Carrington. Herbert Press, 1994.
13
Excitement about her new surroundings and acquaintances prompted her to...
Education Ruth Prawer Jhabvala
She read voraciously, preferring writers with the geographical rootedness which she herself lacked: George Eliot , Thomas Hardy , Charles Dickens , and from beyond the English tradition Marcel Proust , James Joyce , Henry James
Education Elizabeth Taylor
Betty Coles's first reading was Beatrix Potter , then Lewis CarrollAlice in Wonderland and E. Nesbit , whose Bastable stories she read over and over again. Though her parents were not bookish people she progressed at...
Education Pat Barker
PB , living in an almost completely book-free environment (though their few books included some tattered volumes of Arthur Mee 's The Children's Encyclopaedia),
qtd. in
McConville, Brigid. “Born to write”. Mslexia, No. 32, Jan. 2007, pp. 9-12.
11
says she became hooked on reading from newspapers round...
Education Harold Pinter
Books borrowed from Hackney Public Library were also important to HP 's education: the moderns (Woolf , Lawrence , Hemingway , Eliot ), and also Dostoyevsky .
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Education Patricia Highsmith
PH went to various schools. She was removed from her first NewYork public school because her grandmother objected to her making friends with black children. Then came a small and select private school which she...
Intertextuality and Influence Angela Carter
In mid-career AC said she had worked mainly with women as her publishers' editors. Shared gender makes a difference in this relationship, she wrote, even if the reader has zero feminist consciousness.
Carter, Angela. “Notes from the Front Line”. On Gender and Writing, edited by Michelene Wandor, Pandora Press, 1983, pp. 69-77.
72
Her two...
Intertextuality and Influence Anita Desai
AD 's work weaves together a wide range of cultural and literary references: the Mahabharata and the Bhagavadgîtâ, as well as such European authors as E. M. Forster , T. S. Eliot , Dickinson
Intertextuality and Influence Maureen Duffy
MD uses Dostoyevsky 's Brothers Karamazov for her epigraph. The wounds of the title, both hidden and visible, are of many kinds, physical and emotional. The characters, a large cast of them, are offered each...
Intertextuality and Influence Elizabeth Jolley
The narrative voice (a Scottish one, apparently as a kind of joke) is complex and shifting, with irony fed by unstable reference to the central couple (now Muriel and Henry, now Mother and Father, and...
Intertextuality and Influence Iris Murdoch
In shaping her thought, her father 's influence was primary. Later influences on her thinking and therefore also in her novels were provided by Dostoevsky in particular, by existentialist philosophy as embodied in Sartre ...
Intertextuality and Influence Ann Quin
In her short autobiographical article Leaving School—XI, AQ mentions having been writing stories since the age of seven to entertain myself.
Quin, Ann. “Leaving School—XI”. London Magazine, Vol.
new series 6
, July 1966, pp. 63-8.
64
Her urge to write was fostered by her discovery of Dostoyevsky 's...
Literary responses Patricia Highsmith
Novelist Brigid Brophy , who also likened PH to Dostoevsky ,
Dirda, Michael. “This Woman Is Dangerous”. The Guardian, 20 June 2009, p. between pp. 12 and 13.
between 12 and 13
also wrote in November 1965 that among crime writers only PH and Georges Simenon had transcended the limits of crime...
Literary responses Alice Walker
Reviews were mixed (one pronounced occasionally ponderous as well as poignant and personal).
qtd. in
White, Evelyn. Alice Walker. A Life. Norton, 2004.
188
Josephine Hendin in the Saturday Review found the novel politically cliché'd and its resolution improbable. AW responded with an indignant...

Timeline

1866: Fyodor Dostoevsky published Crime and Pu...

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1866

Fyodor Dostoevsky published Crime and Punishment.
Drabble, Margaret, editor. The Oxford Companion to English Literature. 5th ed., Oxford University Press, 1985.
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1868: Fyodor Dostoevsky's novel The Idiot was serialized...

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1868

Fyodor Dostoevsky 's novel The Idiot was serialized in Russkii vestnik.
“Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC.
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January 1879-November 1880: Fyodor Dostoevsky's novel The Brothers Karamazov...

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January 1879-November 1880

Fyodor Dostoevsky 's novel The Brothers Karamazov was serialized in Russkii vestnik.
Hingley, Ronald. Dostoyevsky: His Life and Work. Paul Elek, 1978.
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British Library Catalogue. http://explore.bl.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?dscnt=0&tab=local_tab&dstmp=1489778087340&vid=BLVU1&mode=Basic&fromLo.

1881: Novelist Fyodor Dostoevsky published The...

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1881

Novelist Fyodor Dostoevsky published The Brothers Karamazov.
“Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC.
238

Texts

Dostoevsky, Fyodor Mikhailovich. Idiot. Tipografiia K. Zamyslovskago, 1874, 2 vols.
Dostoevsky, Fyodor Mikhailovich. Prestuplenie i nakazanie. Izd. A. Bazunova, E. Pratsa i IA. Veidenshtraukha, 1867, 2 vols.
Dostoevsky, Fyodor Mikhailovich. The Brothers Karamazov. Translator Garnett, Constance, Heinemann, 1912.
Dostoevsky, Fyodor Mikhailovich. The Novels of Fyodor Dostoevsky. Translator Garnett, Constance, W. Heinemann, 1920, 12 vols.
Dostoevsky, Fyodor Mikhailovich. Zapiski iz podpol’ia. Izd. Stellovskago, 1866.