A self-described “emancipated girl of the sixties,” Snitkina had come of age during Russia’s first feminist movement, and Dostoyevsky-a notorious radical turned acclaimed novelist-had impressed the young woman with his enlightened and visionary fiction. In the fall of 1866, a twenty-year-old stenographer named Anna Snitkina applied for a position with a writer she idolized: Fyodor Dostoyevsky. Therese Anne Fowler, New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of Z: A Novel of Zelda FitzgeraldĪ revelatory new portrait of the courageous woman who saved Dostoyevsky’s life-and became a pioneer in Russian literary history This tale has all of that, and a heroine worthy of her own turn in the spotlight."
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