russia

Hope Mirrlees and Jane Harrison’s interest and affection for the Russian language, literature, and Russian émigré authors is well documented—though hardly unusual for Britons during the First World War and the Russian Revolution.[1] Following 1917 and the turmoil of the civil war, Europe welcomed “an influx of artists and intellectuals” fleeing from these “seemingly apocalyptic events” (Schwinn-Smith, “Bears in Bloomsbury,” 121).