Women’s literature and theatre
This post features Russian women’s literature which has been translated into English.
Given the great number of Russian literary sources translated into English, please restrict suggestions to those items available at or through the UMW library or on open-source websites.
For Non-Fiction works by authors (such as letters or memoirs), or their friends and families, please visit the post on Memoirs.
Anthologies
Kelly, Catriona, ed. An Anthology of Russian Women’s Writing, 1777-1992. Oxford: Oxford UP, 1994. PG3213.A57 1994
Pachmuss, Temira, ed. Women Writers in Russian Modernism: An Anthology. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1978. PG3213 .W6
Poetry
Akhmadulina, Bella. Fever & Other New Poems. New York: W. Morrow, 1969. PG3478.K45A23
Akhmatova, Anna Andreevna. Poems of Akhmatova. Boston: Little, Brown, 1973. PG3476.A324A24 1973
Akhmatova, Anna Andreevna. The Complete Poems of Anna Akhmatova. Somerville: Zephyr Press, 1990. PG3476.A324A24 1990
Akhmatova, Anna Andreevna. Selected Poems by Anna Akhmatova. London: Oxford UP, 1969. PG3476.A324A25 1969
Akhmatova, Anna Andreevna. A Poem Without a Hero. Ann Arbor: Ardis, 1973. PG3476.A324P613 1973
Akhmatova, Anna Andreevna. Way of all the Earth. Athens: Ohio UP, 1979. PG3476.A324W3 1979b
Akhmatova, Anna Andreevna. In a Shattered Mirror: The Later Poetry of Anna Akhmatova. Stanford: Stanford UP, 1992. PG3476.A324Z535 1992
Campbell, David, and Rosemary Dobson. Seven Russian Poets: Imitations. St. Lucia: University of Queensland Press, 1979. PG3237.E5S47
Feinstein, Elaine, comp. Three Russian Poets: Margarita Aliger, Yunna Mortiz, Bella Akhmadulina. Manchester: Carcanet, 1979. PG 3235.W6 T4713
Field, Andrew, ed. Pages from Tarusa: New Voices in Russian Writing. Boston: Little, Brown, 1964. PG3213.T3
Hayward, Max, and Albert Todd, ed. Twentieth Century Russian Poetry: Silver and Steel: An Anthology. New York: Doubleday, 1993. PG3237 .E5 T85 1993
Ivanovskaya, Adriadna, and Ninas Kupriyanova. Soviet Russian Poetry of the 1950’s-1970’s. Moscow: Progress, 1981. PG3237.E5 S66 1981
Kayden, Eugene, trans. Russian Poems. Boulder: Colorado Quarterly, 1979. PG3237.E5A7
Ratushinskaya, Irina. Beyond the Limit: Poems. Evanston: Northwestern University Press, 1987. PG3485.5.A875A6 1987
Tsvetaeva, Marina. Selected Poems. Oxford: Oxford UP, 1981. PG3476.T75A23 1981
Tsevtaeva, Marina. The Demesne of the Swans. Ann Arbor: Ardis, 1980. PG3476.T75L413 1980
Yarmolinsky, Avrahm A. A Treasury of Russian Verse. New York: Macmillan Co, 1949. PG3237.E5Y3
Short Story
Akhmatova, Anna Andreevna. My Half Century: Selected Prose. Ann Arbor: Ardis, 1992. PG3476.A324A26 1992
Andrew, Joe, trans. Russian Women’s Shorter Fiction: An Anthology, 1835-1860. Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press, 1996. PG3286.R94 1996.
Brown, Clarence. The Portable Twentieth-Century Russian Reader. New York: Penguin, 1985. PG3213.P67 1985b
Field, Andrew, ed. Pages from Tarusa: New Voices in Russian Writing. Boston: Little, Brown, 1964. PG3213.T3
Gessen, Masha, ed. Half a Revolution: Contemporary Fiction by Russian Women. Pittsburgh: Cleis Press, 1995. PG3286.H35 1995
Goscilo, Helena, ed. Balancing Acts: Contemporary Stories by Russian Women. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1989. PG3286.B25 1989
Tolstaya, Tatyana. On the Golden Porch. New York: Knopf, 1989. PG3476.T58N313 1989
Tsevtaeva, Marina. A Captive Spirit: Selected Prose. Ann Arbor: Ardis, 1980. PG3476.T75A25 1980
Novel
Berberova, Nina. The Italics are Mine. New York: Harcourt, Brace & World, 1969. PG3476.B425Z513
Chukovskaya, Lydia. Sofia Petrovna. Evanston: Northwestern UP, 1988. PG3476.C485O6713 1988
Kollontai, Alexandra. A Great Love. London: Virago, 1981. PG3476.K58A6 1981
Kollontai, Alexandra. Red Love. Westport: Hyperion Press, 1973. PG3476.K58R42 1973
Nagrodskaia, Evdokia. The Wrath of Dionysys: A Novel. Bloomington: Indiana UP, 1997. PG3467.N22G513 1997
Panova, Vera. Looking Ahead. Moscow: Foreign Languages Publishing House, 1950. PG3476.P255K7131950z
Panova, Vera. A Summer to Remember to Remember. New York: T. Yoseloff, 1965. PG3476.P255S413 1965
Pavlova, Karolina. A Double Life. Ann Arbor: Ardis, 1978. PG3337.P35D9213x 1978
Shaginian, Marietta. Mess-mend, Yankees in Petrograd. Ann Arbor: Ardis, 1991. PG3476.S437M413 1991
Verbitskaya, Anastasya. Keys to Happiness: A Novel. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1999. PG3470.V4K413 1999