- Isabel Florence Hapgood
Isabel Florence Hapgood (
November 21 ,1850 -June 26 ,1928 ) was anU.S. writer andtranslator of Russian texts.Hapgood was born in
Boston , the descendant of a long-established New England family. She studied Germanic andSlavic languages , specializing in Orthodox liturgical texts. She was one of the major figures in the dialogue between Western Christianity and Orthodoxy. She traveled throughRussia between 1887 and 1889, meetingLeo Tolstoy . Hapgood died inNew York .Own works
* "Russian Rambles" (1895)
* "A Survey of Russian Literature" (1902)
* "Little Russian and St. Petersburg Tales" (Date Unknown)Translations
* "Childhood, Boyhood, Youth", "Life" (1888), and "Sevastopol" (1888) by Leo Tolstoy
* "The Epic Songs of Russia." (Date unknown)
* "Taras Bulba" and "Dead Souls" byNikolay Gogol
* "Les Misérables" (1887), "Notre Dame de Paris" (1888), and "Toilers of the Sea" (1888) byVictor Hugo
* "Recollections and Letters" (1892) byErnest Renan
* "The Revolution of France Under the Third Republic" (1897) byPierre de Coubertin
* "Foma Gordyeef" (1901) and "Orloff and His Wife" (1901) byMaksim Gorky
* "The Brothers Karamazov" (1905) byFyodor Dostoevsky
* "The Seagull" (1905) byAnton Chekhov
* "Service Book of the Holy Orthodox-Catholic (Greco-Russian) Church" (1922)
* "The Village" (1923) byIvan Bunin External links
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* [http://orthodoxwiki.org/Isabel_Hapgood Orthodoxwiki: Isabel Hapgood]
* [http://www.roca.org/OA/135/135q.htm Isabel Hapgood] - by Fr. Alexey Young (a brief biography)
* [http://justus.anglican.org/resources/pc/women/hapgood/ledkovsky.pdf A Linguistic Bridge to Orthodoxy: In Memoriam Isabel Florence Hapgood] - by Marina Ledkovsky. A lecture delivered at the Twelfth Annual Russian Orthodox Musicians Conference, October 7-11 1998, Washington, D.C. (PDF)Persondata
NAME=Hapgood, Isabel Florence
ALTERNATIVE NAMES=
SHORT DESCRIPTION=translator andwriter
DATE OF BIRTH=November 21 ,1850
PLACE OF BIRTH=Boston
DATE OF DEATH=June 26 ,1928
PLACE OF DEATH=New York
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