Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Lev Nikolaevich Tolstoy
Standard Name: Tolstoy, Lev Nikolaevich
Used Form: Leo Tolstoy
Connections
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Travel | Constance Garnett | She spent seven weeks in Russia and made valuable contacts (this was when she first met Tolstoy
). She returned to Russiain 1904, accompanied by her son David. Blain, Virginia et al., editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford. Tomalin, Clare. “Constance Garnett (1861 - 1946)”. Breaking Bounds. Six Newnham Lives, edited by Biddy Passmore, Newnham College, pp. 14-25. 19 |
Travel | Denise Levertov | DL
, on a visit to Russia (particularly Moscow), spent the day at Tolstoy
's house, Yasnaya Polyana. Duncan, Robert, and Denise Levertov. The Letters of Robert Duncan and Denise Levertov. Editors Bertholf, Robert J. and Albert Gelpi, Stanford University Press. 699 |
Travel | Lady Cynthia Asquith | Her old age included travel: three visits to Elizabeth Bowen
in Ireland and one to Tolstoy
's estate of Yasnaya Polyana in Russia (with two days in Moscow and one in Leningrad) in connection... |
Travel | Kathleen E. Innes | Its success helped secure for future schools such high-profile speakers as Bertrand Russell
, Hermann Hesse
, Emily Greene Balch
, Romain Rolland
, Georges Duhamel
, and Paul Birukoff
(Tolstoy
's secretary and biographer). Harvey, Kathryn. "Driven by War into Politics": A Feminist Biography of Kathleen Innes. University of Alberta. 70n21 |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Ursula K. Le Guin | This contains her thoughts on Mark Twain
, Tolstoy
, J. R. R. Tolkien
(Rhythmic Pattern in The Lord of the Rings) and Ishi
the tribal native American whom her father studied and... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | John Oliver Hobbes | The Science of Life uses as its examples St Ignatius
, John Wesley
, and Tolstoy
. Richards, John Morgan, and John Oliver Hobbes. “Pearl Richards Craigie: Biographical Sketch by her Father”. The Life of John Oliver Hobbes, J. Murray. 31 |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Marjorie Bowen | MB
credits British women novelists for modifying the methods of the great European novelists, noting in particular Dorothy Richardson
's perfection of the stream-of-consciousness technique. She draws a contrast between Dorothy Richardson
's Miriam and... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Bessie Rayner Parkes | A second edition appeared a year later, and a paperback edition in 2008. 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. |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Q. D. Leavis | |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Eva Figes | She considers the drama of ancient Greece and of the Renaissance, setting each in its historical context. After dealing with issues of religious belief, kingship, and the dead, she comes to that of women and... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | E. M. Forster | This is on the whole a conservative work. Forster supports H. G. Wells
against Henry James
in their argument over the question in fiction of pattern versus representation of experience. Although he calls for innovation... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Vernon Lee | VL
's topics in this volume include Emerson
, Tolstoy
, Nietzsche
, William James
, H. G. Wells
, Ruskin
, and many other French and English authors and critics. Lee had dismissed Ruskin... |
Textual Production | Marie Stopes | The Authorized Life of Marie C. Stopes, a biography of MS
bearing the name of Aylmer Maude
, her longtime friend and biographer of Tolstoy
and many others, was paid for (and mostly written)... |
Textual Production | Constance Garnett | CG
painstakingly translated The Novels of Leo Tolstoy: six volumes which included Anna Karenina, Ivan Ilyitch and Other Stories, and War and Peace (which filled three of the six volumes). 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. Schlueter, Paul, and June Schlueter, editors. An Encyclopedia of British Women Writers. Garland. |
Textual Production | Rose Tremain | RT
published a novel entitled Music and Silence, which she dedicated to her daughter, Eleanor. Scholar John Mullan
has related the title to others employing two abstract nouns, like Elizabeth Inchbald
's Nature and... |
Timeline
28 August 1828: Novelist Lev Nikolaevich Tolstoy was born...
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28 August 1828
Novelist Lev Nikolaevich Tolstoy
was born at Iasnaia Poliana, an estate (which is variously transliterated) near Tula in Russia.
1852: Tolstoy's first published work, Childhood,...
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1852
Tolstoy
's first published work, Childhood, appeared in the Russian literary journal entitled Contemporary.
17 December 1867: The first three of the eventual four volumes...
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17 December 1867
The first three of the eventual four volumes of Tolstoy
's epoch-making historicalnovelWar and Peace were announced in a Moscow newspaper as available.
1875-77: Tolstoy published Anna Karenina, one of the...
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1875-77
Tolstoy
published Anna Karenina, one of the great love stories of the world, in the Russian Messenger.
Noyes, George Rapall. Tolstoy. Dover Publications.
195
1889: Leo Tolstoy published the novel Kreutzer...
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1889
Leo Tolstoy
published the novelKreutzer Sonata; it was quickly translated into English, French, and German.
1899-1900: Leo Tolstoy serially published his novel...
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1899-1900
Leo Tolstoy
serially published his novelResurrection.
27 June 1904: The Times printed Tolstoy's letter on the...
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27 June 1904
The Times printed Tolstoy
's letter on the Russian-Japanese war, Bethink Yourselves, which was translated by Isabella Fyvie Mayo
, as I. F. M., and Vladimir Grigorevich Chertkov
.
1 August 1905: Isabella Fyvie Mayo (as I. F. M.) and Vladimir...
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1 August 1905
Isabella Fyvie Mayo
(as I. F. M.) and Vladimir Grigorevich Chertkov
(or V. Tchertkoef) published a translation of another letter from Tolstoy
to the London Times, A Great Iniquity.
1906: Tolstoy on Shakespeare, which included a...
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1906
Tolstoy
on Shakespeare, which included a translation of Tolstoy
by Isabella Fyvie Mayo
as I. F. M., and Vladimir Grigorevich Chertkov
as V. Tchertkoff (as well as an essay by George Bernard Shaw
), was published.
7 November 1910: Lev Nikolaevich Tolstoy, Russian novelist,...
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7 November 1910
Lev Nikolaevich Tolstoy
, Russian novelist, died at Astapovo, Russia.
After March 2006: Irène Némirovsky's Suite Française, an unfinished,...
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After March 2006
Irène Némirovsky
's Suite Française, an unfinished, two-part novel about the Nazi
occupation of France in 1941-2, reached print in English translation sixty-four years after composition.
16 April 2007: Novelist Yann Martel began a project of sending...
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16 April 2007
Novelist Yann Martel
began a project of sending a book every two weeks to Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper
together with an admonitory letter; on a website he recorded the books sent and gave the...
1 July 2007: British publisher Tank Books released a series...
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1 July 2007
British publisher Tank Books
released a series of classic books, Tales to Take Your Breath Away, designed to mimic cigarette packets—the same size, packaged in flip-top cartons with silver foil wrapping and sealed in cellophane.
TankBooks: Tales to Take Your Breath Away. http://web.archive.org/web/20090620103236/http://www.tankmagazine.com/tankbooks/.
Texts
Dane, Clemence et al. Anna Karenina. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios, 1935.
Tolstoy, Lev Nikolaevich. The Novels of Leo Tolstoy. Translator Garnett, Constance, W. Heinemann, 1904.