Natalie Duddington was a philosopher and a translator of Russian literature into English.
10 Facts About Natalie Duddington
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Natalie Duddington was Ertel's oldest daughter and considered intelligent as a child.
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Natalie Duddington came to England in 1906 and attended University College London on a scholarship, graduating with a first-class degree in philosophy in 1909.
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Natalie Duddington divorced his wife in 1911 and began living with Ertel.
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Natalie Duddington would read her the Russian text, sentence by sentence, and write down the English translation to Constance's dictation.
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Natalie Duddington elucidated difficult passages and provided background information; thus the final version was the result of close collaboration between the two of them.
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Natalie Duddington was one of very few people of whom Constance could say that their minds met, and they became life-long friends.
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Natalie Duddington greatly admired Dostoyevsky's novels and successfully campaigned for their translation.
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When Garnett's productivity eased off after 1920, Natalie Duddington undertook more than two dozen works by herself.
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Natalie Duddington was the first to translate several works by Russian authors into English, including Ivan Goncharov's Oblomov, Mikhail Saltykov-Shchedrin's The Golovlyov Family, and a volume of Anna Akhmatova's Forty-Seven Love Poems.