Золотая ручка: дамская литература XVIII-XIX вв.

Pelegeja Ivanovna Vel'jaseva-Volynceva (1 773-1810)   was  18 years  younger than her accomplished sister  Anna   and thus ,  though sh e, too,   managed to publish her first translation at age 9 , it appeared only in  the 1780s.   While  we  have no information about their mother – or perhaps they had two different mothers? –  these two  sisters  and their  younger brother  Dmitrij   certainly   enjoyed a domestic climate that was conducive to literary activity. As  Golicyn  notes,  Pelageja   published two  translations ,   both  of them  theatrica l and featuring her name squarely on the cover.  Both were  issued   by Nikolaj Novikov   at the  University of Moscow  P ress , the first was even printed at his expense ( Svodnyj katalog  1:130). Novikov   supported a number of  women writers and translators ...