Russian Women's Shorter Fiction: An Anthology, 1835-1860

by Joe Andrew (Editor), Joe Professor Andrew (Translator)

• New

  Hardcover
  1996

  $285.63

  This book examines the first major flowering of Russian women's writing in the period around 1850, introducing the reader to such significant figures as Elena Gun, Mariya Zhukova, Nadezhda Durova, and Avdotya Panaeva. The volume demonstrates the diversity of women's writing and the contribution women made to the overall development of Russian fiction in its formative period.