Strelsky, Katharine.

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Editor, translator, researcher Katharine Anderson Strelsky (1897-1993) was born in Rochester, New York, the daughter of Willis P. and Maud Harrington Anderson. She graduated from the University of Rochester (A.B. 1922) and studied at Radcliffe College (1922-1923) and Columbia University (1935). From 1924 to 1930 she lived in Saranac Lake, New York, where she was treated for tuberculosis. In 1928 she married Nikander Strelsky, also a former patient. Nikander Strelsky taught Russian at Vassar College beginning in 1930; he died in 1946. Following his death, Katharine Strelsky lived in Italy, Paris, and London, working as a free-lance writer, translator, and English coach for film and stage. Returning to the United States in 1953, she worked as assistant editor for the journals Isis and Daedelus. She was a fellow at the Radcliffe Institute (1963-1965), where she worked on a study of Dostoevsky entitled An Obsolete Image of Goodness, an analysis of his novel The Idiot. She pubilshed numerous translations of works in French, Italian, and Russian.

From the description of Papers of Katharine Strelsky, 1929-1985 (inclusive). (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 548941116

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referencedIn George Sarton additional papers, 1901-1956 Houghton Library
referencedIn Paul A. Freund papers Harvard Law School Library Langdell Hall Cambridge, MA 02138
referencedIn Poetry mss., 1954-2002 Lilly Library (Indiana University, Bloomington)
creatorOf Strelsky, Katharine. Papers of Katharine Strelsky, 1929-1985 (inclusive). Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America‏
referencedIn Harry Levin papers Houghton Library
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