“An autumn evening, darkness, rain.” #novnov26

Back in 2017, I discovered the work of Sofia Khvoshchinskaya, a Russian author from the 1800s who was well known and respected in her time but had fallen completely out of view. She was one of three sisters sometimes considered the Russian Brontes, and I reviewed her “City Folk and Country Folk” for Shiny New Books in a lovely Columbia University Press Russian Library edition. The story of the Khvoshchinskaya sisters is fascinating, and I must admit I was intrigued, as well as being keen to see if any more of their work was available. I had picked up “The Boarding-School Girl” by sister Nadezhda Khvoshchinskaya (and confess it’s been buried in Mount TBR since). However, a recent release of work by Nadezhda in an Oxford World Classics edition caught my eye, and the publisher was kind enough to send me a review copy; the title is “The Brother”, and it made for fascinating, if sobering, reading. The book came into my line of sight thanks to the excellent blog run by Erik McDonald here;…

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