Reinventing Romantic Poetry : Russian Women Poets of the Mid-nineteenth Century

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60 .Dnevnik devuskhifirst appeared serialized in Moskvitianin,starting with
the March 1850 issue, as Poeziia i proza zhizni: Dnevnik devushki: Roman v stikhakh,
with the note “pisano 1839–41, ispravleno 1845 ” (written in 1839–41, revised
1845 ). N. A. Dobroliubov, “U pristani,”in Sobranie sochinenii(Moskva: Gos. izd.
khud. lit., 1962 ), 2 : 71 ; Bannikov, Russkie poetessy XIX veka, 44 ; Romanov, editor’s
introduction, 9 , 22. Excerpts appear in Schastlivaia zhenshchina(Moskva: Izd.
Pravda, 1991 ).
61 .See Dale Spender’s discussion of sexual harassment in the intellectual
realm (Women of Ideas and What Men Have Done to Them,22–24).


Chapter 5. Nadezhda Khvoshchinskaia



  1. On Khvoshchinskaia, see Hoogenboom, Hilde, and Arja Rosenholm, Ia
    zhivu ot pochty do pochty: Iz perepiski N.D. Khvoshchinskoi(Wilhelmhorst: Verlag
    F. K. Gopfort, 2001 ); and Hoogenboom, Hilde, and and Arja Rosenholm, eds. The
    Sisters Khvoshchinskoi(Amsterdam: Rodopi, forthcoming). On Khvoshchinskaia
    as a prose writer, see L. A. Chizhikov, Nadezhda Dmitrievna Khvoshchinskaia-
    Zaionchkovskaia (V. Krestovskii-psevdonim) 20 maia, 1825–1889iiun’ 8 : Bibliografiche-
    skie o nei materialy(Odessa: Tsentral’naia tipografiia S. Rozenshtraukha i N. Lem-
    berga, 1914 ); Jehanne Gheith, Finding the Middle Ground: Krestovskii, Tur, and the
    Power of Ambivalence in Nineteenth-Century Russian Women’s Prose (Evanston, Ill.:
    Northwestern University Press, 2003 ); Ledkovsky, Rosenthal, and Zirin, Dictio-
    nary of Russian Women Writers,286–88; K. D. Muratova, ed., Istoriia russkoi litera-
    tury XIX veka: Bibliograficheskii ukazatel’ (Moskva: Izd. Akademi Nauk SSSR, 1962 ),
    381–83; Arja Rosenholm, “Writing the Self: Creativity and the Female Author:
    Nadezhda Dmitrievna Khvoshchinskaya (1824–89),” in Gender Restructuring in
    Russian Studies,ed. Marianne Liljestrom, Eila Mantysaari, and Arja Rosenholm
    (Tampere, Finland: University of Tampere, 1993 ), 193–208; Karen Rosneck, intro-
    duction to Nadezhda Khvoshchinskaya, The Boarding-School Girl(Evanston, Ill.:
    Northwestern University Press, 2000 ), ix–xxx; Karla Thomas Solomon, “Na-
    dezhda Khvoshchinskaia,” in Russian Women Writers,ed. Christine Tomei, 1 :
    261–67; Mary Zirin, “Women’s Prose Fiction in the Age of Realism,” in Women
    Writers in Russian Literature,ed. Toby W. Clyman and Diana Greene, 86–88.
    At most, these works mention in passing that Khvoshchinskaia started her
    literary career by writing poetry. One exception is A. P. Mogilianskii, who writes
    that Khvoshchinskaia has been underrated as a poet and refers to “nalichie u
    nee nezauradnogo poeticheskogo darovaniia” (the presence in her of an excep-
    tional poetic gift) (“N. D. i S. D. Khvoshchinskie,” 234–35). He does not, how-
    ever, discuss any of Khvoshchinskaia’s poetry. Besides writing poetry and prose,
    Khvoshchinskaia wrote criticism in Otechestvennye zapiskiunder the name
    Porechnikov and in Russkie vedomostiunder various initials.

  2. Biographical information is based on A. [G.] Karrik, “Iz vospominanii
    oN.D. Khvoshchinskoi-Zaionchkovskoi,” Zhenskoe delo,nos. 9 , 11 , 12 ( 1899 );
    P.Khvoshchinskaia, “Nadezhda Khvoshchinskaia,” 1 : i–xviii; Ledkovsky, Ro-
    senthal, and Zirin, Dictionary of Russian Women Writers,286–91; Semevskii,
    “N. D. Khvoshchinskaia-Zaionchkovskaia”; Tsebrikova, “Ocherk zhizni N. D.
    Khvoshchinskoi-Zaionchkovskoi.”


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