Isabel Florence Hapgood
Isabel Florence Hapgood | |
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Boston, Massachusetts, U.S. | |
Died | June 26, 1928 New York City, U.S. | (aged 76)
Occupation(s) | Writer, translator |
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Isabel Florence Hapgood (November 21, 1850 – June 26, 1928) was an American
texts.Early life
Hapgood was born in Boston, to Asa Hapgood and Lydia Anna Bronson Crossley, with her twin brother Asa. Their parents later had another son, William Frank Hapgood (who became a patent lawyer). Asa Hapgood was an inventor, and his family of English and Scottish descent had lived near Worcester, Massachusetts since the 17th century.[1] Her mother's father had emigrated from England and owned a farm in Mason County, Kentucky.[2]
Career
Hapgood became a major translator of French and Russian literature, as well as a key figure in the dialogue between
Hapgood dreamed of traveling to Russia, and so engaged a Russian lady to help her attain fluency in the spoken language. Between 1887 and 1889, she and her widowed mother traveled through Russia. While there, Hapgood met several significant Russian literary and clerical figures. After that trip, Hapgood began traveling about annually to Russia. On that long first trip, Hapgood spent several weeks with the famous Russian novelist Leo Tolstoy on his country estate, and continued publishing translations of his works. In 1891, The Atlantic magazine published a lengthy article by Hapgood detailing her observations of Tolstoy as a man trying to live his ideal life.[4]
For 22 years, Hapgood wrote for the
Many of the writers Hapgood translated were people of strong religious convictions. Hapgood herself was a lifelong and devout Episcopalian.[citation needed]
Particularly impressed by the
Hapgood continued to admire Eastern Orthodox church music and helped Eastern Orthodox choirs in the United States, including performances at the Cathedral of St. John the Divine in New York City and before President Woodrow Wilson at the White House. She also compiled a history of Russian Orthodox music, but the manuscript was never published and was lost.[10]
Despite Count Tolstoy's admonition that she should marry, Hapgood never married (nor did either of her brothers), and had no children.[citation needed]
Death and legacy
Isabel Hapgood died in
Her papers are in the Manuscript collection of the New York Public Library.[13]
Own works
- The Epic Songs of Russia (1886) (new edition with an introduction by Prof J.W.Macktail, 1915))
- Count Tolstoi and the Public Censor, 1887[14]
- Notable Women: Sonya Kovalevsky,Century Magazine(1895).
- Russian Rambles (1895)[16]
- A Survey of Russian Literature (1902)[17]
- Little Russian and St. Petersburg Tales (Date Unknown)
- The Death and Funeral of St. Raphael,[18] New York Tribune, March 8, 1915
Translations
- Childhood, Boyhood, Youth (1886), and Sevastopol (1888)[19] by Leo Tolstoy
- Les Misérables (1887), Notre-Dame de Paris[20] (1888), and Toilers of the Sea (1888) by Victor Hugo
- The Kreutzer Sonata[21] (1890) and The Gospel in Brief (1896) by Leo Tolstoy
- On Labor and Luxury,[22] On the Significance of Science and Art,[23] Article on the Census in Moscow,[24] Thoughts Evoked by the Census of Moscow[25] and What to Do?[26][27] by Leo Tolstoy
- St. John's Eve,[29] Taras Bulba, "The Cloak", "The Portrait", and "The Tale of How Ivan Ivanovitch Quarrelled with Ivan Nikiforovitch" by Nikolai Gogol
- Recollections and Letters (1892) by Ernest Renan
- Heart (1895) by Edmondo De Amicis[30]
- The Revolution of France Under the Third Republic (1897)[31] by Pierre de Coubertin
- Foma Gordyeef (1901) and "Orloff and His Wife" by Maxim Gorky (1901)
- The Diary of a Superfluous Man and Other Stories, A Reckless Character, and Other Stories and A Nobleman's Nest by Ivan Turgenev (1903)
- The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky (1905)
- The Seagull by Anton Chekhov (1905)
- Service Book of the Holy Orthodox-Catholic (Greco-Russian) Church (1906)[32][33] (republished 1922)[34]
- The Steel Flea (1916) by Nikolai Leskov
- The Village by Ivan Bunin (1923)
- The Cathedral Folkby Nikolai Leskov (1924)
References
- ^ [1] Archived 2018-02-19 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived (PDF) from the original on August 10, 2013. Retrieved June 25, 2014.
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: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link) - ^ Hapgood, Isabel Florence; Mackail, J. W. (John William) (February 17, 2018). "The epic songs of Russia". New York : C. Scribner's Sons. Archived from the original on March 11, 2016 – via Internet Archive.
- ^ Hapgood, Isabel (1891). "Count Tolstoy at Home". The Atlantic. Archived from the original on May 30, 2011. Retrieved May 26, 2011.
- ^ "Isabel Florence Hapgood - Biography & Facts". Archived from the original on June 23, 2011.
- ISBN 0838640915.
- ^ "p. 11" (PDF). Archived (PDF) from the original on August 10, 2013.
- ^ "Isabel Hapgood". Archived from the original on October 7, 2008. Retrieved October 1, 2008.
- ^ "pp. 7-9" (PDF). Archived (PDF) from the original on August 10, 2013.
- ^ "pp. 10-11" (PDF). Archived (PDF) from the original on August 10, 2013.
- ^ "Orthodox English Translation". Rev. Peter M Preble. August 23, 2012. Archived from the original on March 4, 2016. Retrieved April 10, 2016.
- OCLC 1283854016.
- ^ "archives.nypl.org -- Isabel Florence Hapgood papers". archives.nypl.org. Archived from the original on October 28, 2014.
- ^ Wikisource:Count Tolstoi and the Public Censor
- ^ Wikisource:Century Magazine/Volume 50/Issue 4/Notable Women: Sonya Kovalevsky
- ^ Russian Rambles by Isabel Florence Hapgood. Archived from the original on March 28, 2015.
- ^ A Survey of Russian Literature, with Selections by Isabel Florence Hapgood. Archived from the original on March 28, 2015.
- ^ "Isabel Hapgood: The death and funeral of St. Raphael - OrthodoxHistory.org". December 2, 2010. Archived from the original on April 24, 2015.
- ^ Sevastopol by graf Leo Tolstoy. Archived from the original on September 5, 2015.
- ^ Notre-Dame De Paris by Victor Hugo. Archived from the original on March 21, 2018.
- ^ Wikisource:Tolstoy's "Kreutzer Sonata"
- ^ Wikisource:On Labor and Luxury
- ^ Wikisource:On the Significance of Science and Art
- ^ Wikisource:Article on the Census in Moscow
- ^ (incomplete)
- ^ Wikisource:What to Do?
- ^ What to Do? Thoughts Evoked by the Census of Moscow by graf Leo Tolstoy. Archived from the original on March 21, 2015.
- ^ Wikisource:Old-Fashioned Farmers
- ^ Wikisource:St. John's Eve (Gogol)
- ^ Cuore (Heart): An Italian Schoolboy's Journal by Edmondo De Amicis. Archived from the original on March 23, 2015.
- ^ "Review of The Evolution of France under the Third Republic by Baron Pierre de Coubertin, trans. from the French by Isabel F. Hapgood ..." The Quarterly Review. 189: 241–265. January 1899.
- ^ Service Book Of Holy Orthodox Church By Hapgood.
- ^ Church, Orthodox Eastern (January 1, 1906). Service Book of the Holy Orthodox-Catholic Apostolic (Greco-Russian) Church. Houghton, Mifflin.
- ^ Church, Orthodox Eastern (January 1, 1922). Service Book of the Holy Orthodox-Catholic Apostolic Church. Association Press.
External links
- Works related to Isabel Florence Hapgood at Wikisource
- Media related to Isabel Florence Hapgood at Wikimedia Commons
- Works by Isabel Florence Hapgood at Project Gutenberg
- Works by or about Isabel Florence Hapgood at Internet Archive
- Works by Isabel Florence Hapgood at LibriVox (public domain audiobooks)
- Isabel Hapgood - by Fr. Alexey Young (a brief biography)
- 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)