Lev Nikolaevich Tolstoy

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...

Responding to recent charges that Brontë 's novel is stylistically flawed, incoherent in intention, and excessively melodramatic and violent, QDL argues that the text, although not a seamless work of art, belongs, along with Tolstoy

DL , on a visit to Russia (particularly Moscow), spent the day at Tolstoy 's house, Yasnaya Polyana.

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.

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).

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...