Unearthing the Literary Archives of Russia’s Brontë Sisters: The Poetry of Nadezhda Khvoshchinskaya

“Unearthing the Literary Archives of Russia’s Brontë Sisters: The Poetry of Nadezhda Khvoshchinskaya” will scan, transcribe and publish digitally about 200 poems, with translations into English of selected poems, by Nadezhda Khvoshchinskaya (1821-89), located in two notebooks in the Russian State Archive of Literature and Art in Moscow. They are the last major missing part of an ongoing project with an international team of scholars, archivists, and translators that began in collaboration with Arja Rosenholm in 2000, which will make the large oeuvre and story of this major nineteenth-century Russian woman writer accessible in the digital age to readers, students, scholars, and translators and to rebuild her reputation.