Gurevich, Liubov (1866–1940)
Gurevich, Liubov (1866–1940)
Russian historian and literary critic. Name variations: Liubov' Iakovleva Gurévich. Born 1866 in Russia; died 1940; never married; children: Elena.
With Akim Volynskii, worked as publisher and co-editor of Northern Herald (1891–98), publishing fiction by Chekhov and Tolstoy, as well as women writers like Maria Krestovskaya, Zinaida Gippius, Olga Shapir and Lou Andreas-Salome; wrote literary and theater criticism collected in Literature and Aesthetics (1912); also published pamphlets on rights of working women, The 9th of January (1906) and Why Women Must Be Given All Rights and Freedom (1906); met Stanislavski and later edited his theoretical writings and collaborated on his memoirs My Life in Art (1926); published The Actor's Art: On the Nature of the Actor's Artistic Experiences on Stage (1927) and The History of Russian Theatrical Life (1939); translated writers including Bashkirtseff, Spinoza, Maupassant, Stendhal, Proust, and Hauptmann.