Literary Ladies Guide
An archive dedicated to classic women authors and their work
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Olga Ivinskaya, poet, literary translator & Boris Pasternak’s muse
Russian poet Olga Ivinskaya (1912–1995) is remembered as Boris Pasternak ’s friend and lover, and the inspiration for the character of Lara in Doctor Zhivago (1957). She was also his co-translator for contemporary poetry collections. Olga Ivinskaya was instrumental in getting…
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Anne Dacier, translator of Homer’s The Iliad and The Odyssey
Anne Dacier (1645–1720), born Anne Le Fèvre, was a French classic scholar and one of the rare learned women in Europe who earned a living as an editor and translator. She is best known for the prose translation of the Homeric epics from the original Greek language into French, a…
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Tove Ditlevsen, Danish author of The Copenhagen Trilogy
Tove Ditlevsen (December 14, 1917 – March 7, 1976) was a Danish author best known for The Copenhagen Trilogy , an account of her life from childhood to adulthood, marriage, and drug addiction. She was also an accomplished and prolific poet. Her contemporaries largely…