Anton Chekhov in British Modernism

The short stories and plays of the Russian author Anton Chekhov enjoyed tremendous popularity in Britain during the early modernist period. This comparison interrogates Chekhov’s presence in and influence on several modernist stories.

View these Voyant Corpuses

Fraser’s “Lambeth Bridge” and Chekhov’s “Artists’ Wives”

• Lambeth Bridge Corpus
• Artists’ Wives Corpus
• Combine Corpus

Mansfield’s “Daughters of the Late Colonel” and Chekhov’s “A Dreary Story”

• Daughters Corpus
• A Dreary Story Corpus
• Combined Corpus

Lucas’s “Three Grotesques” and Chekhov’s “The Princess”

• Three Grotesques Corpus
• The Princess Corpus
• Combined Corpus

Included Titles

• Lambeth Bridge by Arthur Ronald Fraser, in The Open Window (1911)
• Daughters of the Late Colonel by Katherine Mansfield, in The London Mercury (1921)
• Three Grotesques by John Lucas, in The Open Window (1910)
• Artists’ Wives by Anton Chekhov (1880)
• A Dreary Story by Anton Chekhov (1889)
• The Princess by Anton Chekhov (1889)

Further Reading

“Intertextuality, Aesthetics, and the Digital: Rediscovering Chekhov in Early British Modernism”

How To Cite

Jacob, Sam. “Anton Chekhov in British Modernism.” (2019). Modernist Short Story Project, https://mssp.byu.edu/anton-chekhov-in-british-modernism/.