Constance Garnett

Constance Garnett
Constance Garnett with her son David in the mid-1890s
Born	Constance Clara Black (1861-12-19)19 December 1861 Brighton, England
Died	17 December 1946(1946-12-17) (aged 84) The Cearne, Crockham Hill, Kent, England
Occupation	Translator
Language	English
Education	Brighton and Hove High School
Alma mater	Newnham College, Cambridge
Spouse	Edward Garnett
Children	David Garnett

Constance Clara Garnett (née Black; 19 December 1861 – 17 December 1946) was an English translator of nineteenth-century Russian literature. She was the first English translator to render numerous volumes of Anton Chekhov's work into English and the first to translate almost all of Fyodor Dostoevsky's fiction into English. She also rendered works by Ivan Turgenev, Leo Tolstoy, Nikolai Gogol, Ivan Goncharov, Alexander Ostrovsky, and Alexander Herzen into English. Altogether, she translated 71 volumes of Russian literature, many of which are still in print today.