Dmitrieva, Valentina (1859–1948)
Dmitrieva, Valentina (1859–1948)
Russian novelist and short-story writer. Name variations: Valentina Ionovna Dmitrieva. Born 1859 in Russia; died 1948; dau. of an educated serf; studied medicine in St Petersburg.
Wrote many realistic short stories and novels about Russian peasant life while exiled in Tver' and Voronezh for revolutionary activities; short novel Gomochka (1894), was translated as Love's Anvil; fiction often pointed out social and political abuses.
See also autobiography The Way It Was (1930).
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