Antonina (Russian: Антонина) is an 1851 novel by Evgenia Tur, one of several Russian novels influenced by Jane Eyre.[1][2] A first English translation by Michael Katz was published by Northwestern University Press in 1996.

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  1. ^ Jehanne Gheith Krestovskii, Tur, and the Power of Ambivalence in Nineteenth-Century Russian Women's Prose 2004 0810117142 "the relationship of Tur's novel Antonina (1851) to Turgenev's Diary of a Superfluous Man (Dnevnik lishnego cheloveka, ..."
  2. ^ Rosalind J. Marsh Gender and Russian Literature: New Perspectives - 1996 - Page 110 0521552583 "Another example of a relatively successful work influenced by Jane Eyre is E. Tur, 'Antonina', first published as a fragment in the almanac Kometa (Moscow, 1851), which became an inset text within her novel Plemiannitsa (The Niece, ..."