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Ivy Teresa Low Litvinov (Russian: Айви Вальтеровна Литвинова) (4 June 1889 – 16 April 1977) was an English-Russian writer and translator, and wife of Soviet diplomat and foreign minister Maxim Litvinov.
14 de ene. de 2014 · Dying in one’s bed wasn’t the usual exit from Joseph Stalin‘s Russia, and Ivy Low Litvinov, as the wife of the genocidaire’s foreign minister Maxim Litvinov, wasn’t a likely candidate for a natural end. Yet she lived in Moscow with their children until 1972, when she returned to the U.K.
23 de abr. de 2024 · This article examines the early literary career of the writer Ivy Low. Low’s work and literary friendships of this period offer a rich source of insight into the contradictions and challenges of British literary culture in the early 1910s, especially for a young woman of Jewish descent eager to belong to a new generation of writers.
29 de mar. de 2021 · In 1934, Vanity Fair celebrated Ivy Litvinov as the ‘unofficial hostess of the Soviet Union’ who ‘befriended many Americans confused by a new regime’. Ivy’s role as Soviet hostess for Anglophone artists, intellectuals and dignitaries gave her the opportunity to fashion herself as a cosmopolitan intellectual in her own right – a ...
In her 60-year career as a writer, Ivy Low Litvinov wrote two semiautobiographical novels, two versions of a mystery, a volume of short stories, and numerous articles, sketches, and reviews for publications including the Manchester Guardian, Vogue, and The New Yorker.
The first-born daughter of the scholar and educator Walter Low and the novelist Alice Herbert, she was the author of two novels—one mildly scandalous—and a friend of D.H. Lawrence when in 1916 she chose to marry an obscure Bolshevik conspirator in exile in London.
Ivy Low. (1889—1977) Quick Reference. (1889–1977) married (1916) Maxim Maximovich Litvinov (1876–1951). Brought up in London, the daughter of Alice Herbert and of a philologist who translated the novels of Björnstjerne Björnson (1832–1910), she was ... From: Low, Ivy in The Oxford Companion to Edwardian Fiction » Subjects: Literature.
