Constance Clara Garnett was an English writer and translator specializing in nineteenth-century Russian literature. She played a foundational role in introducing Russian literary classics to English-speaking audiences during a period when these works were largely inaccessible in translation. Garnett was the first English translator to render numerous volumes of Anton Chekhov's work into English and the first to translate almost all of Fyodor Dostoevsky's fiction into English. Beyond these major figures, she also translated works by Ivan Turgenev, Leo Tolstoy, Nikolai Gogol, Ivan Goncharov, Alexander Ostrovsky, and Alexander Herzen. Over the course of her career, Garnett translated 71 volumes of Russian literature. Many of these translations have remained in print for over a century, continuing to serve as standard English versions of these Russian classics and demonstrating the enduring quality and influence of her work.