VMs: Re: Ethel Voynich

["Rafal T. Prinke" <rafalp@xxxxxxxxxx>]

DANA SCOTT <dscott520@xxxxxxx> wrote:

> I do not know what this website is chronicling but it does appear to contain a > youthful picture of Ethel Voynich and perhaps some biographical information.
> 
>http://rubtsov.penza.com.ru/calendar/0728.htm

This is a calendar of anniversaries for July 28th. The note on
Ethel Voynich does not mention her husband. She was extremely
popular in the former USSR due to her revolutionary novel 
"The Gadfly". According to that note it was translated
in the USSR into 23 languages (i.e. the languages spoken
in the Soviet Union) and had over 100 editions, totalling
over 4 million copies. The note says that the main hero
- The Gadfly - is modelled on her "good acquitance" 
Sergiey Stepniak-Krawczynski, a revolutionary-terrorist
and later a writer. She also translated Russian classics
which were "close to her revolutionary heart" and wrote
an oratory "Babylon" about the Russian Revolution.

Some other on-line sources mention her love affair with
Sydney Reilly (orig. Sigmund Rosenblum), British secret 
agent in Bolshevik Russia (or probably a double agent)
about 1896 - ie. already as Voynich's wife, it seems.

Well... the Conspiracy Theory of Rene is getting impetus!

More revelations: 

Ethel's eldest sister Mary Ellen was a teacher in Japan
and married Charles Howard Hinton (1853-1907), 
a mathematician, inventor, theosophical writer, who
inspired Rudolf Steiner.

Best regards,

Rafal