Isabel Florence Hapgood

Isabel Florence Hapgood (November 21, 1850 - June 26, 1928) was an U.S. writer and translator of Russian texts.

Hapgood was born in Boston, the descendant of a long-established New England family. She studied Germanic and Slavic languages, specializing in Orthodox liturgical texts. She was one of the major figures in the dialogue between Western Christianity and Orthodoxy. She traveled through Russia between 1887 and 1889, meeting Leo Tolstoy. Hapgood died in New 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" by Nikolay Gogol
* "Les Misérables" (1887), "Notre Dame de Paris" (1888), and "Toilers of the Sea" (1888) by Victor Hugo
* "Recollections and Letters" (1892) by Ernest Renan
* "The Revolution of France Under the Third Republic" (1897) by Pierre de Coubertin
* "Foma Gordyeef" (1901) and "Orloff and His Wife" (1901) by Maksim Gorky
* "The Brothers Karamazov" (1905) by Fyodor Dostoevsky
* "The Seagull" (1905) by Anton Chekhov
* "Service Book of the Holy Orthodox-Catholic (Greco-Russian) Church" (1922)
* "The Village" (1923) by Ivan 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 and writer
DATE OF BIRTH=November 21, 1850
PLACE OF BIRTH=Boston
DATE OF DEATH=June 26, 1928
PLACE OF DEATH=New York