Ethel Voynich (1864–1960)
Autore di The Gadfly
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Ruoi Trau 1 copia
کتاب صوتی خرمگس 1 copia
מרדות : רומן 1 copia
Szerszeń 1 copia
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Informazioni generali
- Nome canonico
- Voynich, Ethel
- Nome legale
- Voynich, Ethel Lilian
- Altri nomi
- née Boole, Ethel Lilian
Boole, Ethel Lilian - Data di nascita
- 1864-05-11
- Data di morte
- 1960-07-27
- Sesso
- female
- Nazionalità
- Ireland
USA - Luogo di nascita
- Cork, County Cork, Ireland
- Luogo di morte
- New York, New York, USA
- Luogo di residenza
- Berlin, Germany
St. Petersburg, Russia
London, England, UK
New York, New York, USA - Istruzione
- Hochschule für Musik, Berlin
- Attività lavorative
- novelist
composer
music teacher
translator
editor
revolutionary - Relazioni
- Boole, George (father)
Boole, Mary Everest (mother)
Hinton, William (grandnephew)
Taylor, Sir Geoffrey Ingram (nephew) - Organizzazioni
- Society of Women Musicians
- Premi e riconoscimenti
- Minor planet, 1970 OH (2032 Ethel)
- Breve biografia
- Ethel Lilian Voynich, née Boole, was born in Ballintemple, a suburb of Cork, Ireland. Her parents were the English mathematician George Boole, the originator of Boolean logic, and his wife Mary Everest, later an educator and writer. When she was six months old, her father died, and her mother took her five daughters to England, where she was appointed librarian at Queen's College, London. She taught Ethel and her sisters mathematics, geometry and logic. At age 18, Ethel received a small inheritance that enabled her to study piano and musical composition at the Hochschule fur Musik in Berlin in 1882-1885. During this period, she became attracted to radical leftist politics. On her return to London, she studied Russian with the revolutionary Sergei Kravchinsky, a family friend, who encouraged her to travel to Russia. In 1887, she got a job as a governess in St. Petersburg, where she stayed with Kravchinsky's sister-in-law, Preskovia Karauloff. Through her, she became associated with the revolutionary group known as the Narodniks. After her return home, she co-founded the Society of Friends of Russian Freedom with Kravchinsky, and helped to edit Free Russia, the group's publication. She met Wilfrid Michael Voynich (born Wilfrid Michał Habdank-Wojnicz), a book dealer and Russian revolutionary who had escaped from Siberia and fled to England. They began living together by 1895 and she called herself Mrs. Voynich; the couple married in 1902. In 1897, she published the novel The Gadfly, which was an instant international bestseller. In Russia, it was later adapted into a 1955 film and a 1980 television series. She published three more novels, though none matched the huge popularity of the first. She also composed music and created adaptations and transcriptions of exising works. The couple emigrated in 1920 to the USA, settling in New York City, where she founded a music school and worked as a translator of Russian, Polish and French works into English.
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- Voto
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- ISBN
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At the start of the second section it is clear this is an elaborate set up, but given that, this reverse colored echo of Monte Cristo has somewhat interesting characters. Also, while it was a favorite of revolutionary Russians, it more of a send up of revolutionary supporters than an endorsement. But when it gets where it's going - it's off the rails.
A surreal anti-Christian rant that is excessive for an atheist to read. Perhaps a Stalinist could fancy this, forgiving its rather realistic portions for the brave doom and death of the Gadfly and the final frenzy of regret the following day. Oh, and it's racist as all get out, all in the recollections of said Gadfly.… (altro)