tchekhof's

Updated: June 6, 2025

To be sure, the genius is rare whom it is not a disappointment to meet, and the hero-worshipper may be thankful when his great man is guilty of nothing worse than the famous writer in Tchekhof's play so famous as to have his name daily in the papers and his photograph in shop windows whose crime was to condescend to fish and to be pleased when he caught something.

Elizabeth Robins Pennell - Nights: Rome, Venice, in the Aesthetic Eighties; London, Paris, in the Fighting Nineties