A Female Nihilist, a collection of writings about women in the Russian Nihilist movement, published by Corvus Editions, is available for download in pdf.
- Joseph Verey, “Vera Sassulitch” (1880)
- Leon de Tinseau, “A Beautiful Nihilist” (fiction, 1892)
- Gesya Gelfman (1852-1882)
- Cruel Punishments (Goukoffski, 1979)
- Russian Revolutionary Heroines (Sophia Bardina, 1881)
- Mentioned in passing
- May Beals-Hoffpauir, “Sketches of Russian Heroines. I. Vera Figner”
- Joaquin Miller, “Sophia Perovskaya” (1881)
- George Barlow, “Sophia Perovskaia” (1895)
- “Extraordinary escape of a young Nihilist girl…” (1879)
Stepniak’s play, The New Convert, is also available in pdf.
General & Introductory
- Introducing The Beautiful Nihilist: Representations of Revolutionary Women
- Ella Norraikow, “Woman’s Share in Russian Nihilism” (1891)
- “The Term ‘Nihilist’” (1887)
- Voltairine de Cleyre, “Some Nihilists I Have Met” (1893)
Mlle. Achristoff
- “The Nihilist Rebellion” (1879) [coming soon]
Sophie Bardin
- “Russian Revolutionary Heroines” (1881)
Vera Figner
- Ella Norraikow, “Woman’s Share in Russian Nihilism” (1891)
- “A Beautiful Nihilist” (1892)
- “Imprisoned Twenty Years” (1904)
- Hubert Church, “Vera Figner” [poem] (1908)
- May Beals-Hoffpauir, “Sketches of Russian Heroines. I. Vera Figner” (1909)
Mme. Frowdeinki
- “Revival of Nihilism” (1893)
Gesya Gelfman
- “A Horrible Story” (1881)
Olga Gobieslawska
Olga Gontcharenko
- “Beautiful Nihilist Girl” (1890)
- “A Young Nihilist Woman” (1890)
“The girl Goukoffski, aged 15”
- “Cruel Punishments” (1879)
Sophie Gunsberg
- “Plot of a Beautiful Nihilist” (1891)
Olga Ivanovsky
- “Suspected Nihilists” (1890)
- “A Female Nihilist” (1891)
Wanda Krahelska-Filipowicz
Olga Lubotovitch
- Stepniak, “A Female Nihilist” (1886)
Sophie Perovskaya
- “The Stuff of Which Nihilist Martyrs are Made” (1881)
- Joaquin Miller, “Sophia Perovskaya” [poem] (1881)
- Sir Henry Parks, “The Beauteous Terrorist” [poem] (1885)
- “The Beautiful Nihilist” (1889)
- Ella Norraikow, “Woman’s Share in Russian Nihilism” (1891)
- George Barlow, “Sophia Perovskaia” [poem] (1895)
- Ernest Tissot, “Une Nihiliste: Sophie Perovskaia” (1895) [coming soon]
- Tragic Stories from Russia (1905)
Vera Sassulitch
- Joseph Verey, “Vera Sassulitch” [poem] (1880)
Misc. Clippings
- “Another beautiful nihilist…” (1887)
- “Arrested as Nihilists” (1891)
- “Tragedy in San Francisco” (1893)
- “A Nihilist Crime” (1897)
- “A Female Nihilist” (1902)
- [Mentioned in passing]
Fiction
- Leon de Tinseau, “A Beautiful Nihilist” (1892)
- “A Hunt to Death” (1892)
OFFSITE LINKS
Drama:
- Oscar Wilde, Vera; or, The Nihilists (1881)
- Stepniak, The New Convert (Novoobrashchennyi)(1897)
Fiction:
- Ernest Lavigne, A Female Nihilist (1880)
- Charles H. Eden, George Donnington; or, In the Bear’s Grip (1885, 3 volumes) [Google Books]
- Philip May, Love: The Reward (1885, 3 volumes) [Google Books]
- Loiuse Gagneur, A Nihilist Princess (1886)
- Kathleen O’Meara, Narka, the Nihilist (1887)
- Joseph Hatton, By Order of the Czar (1890)
- Richard Henry Savage, My Official Wife (1891)
- St. George Rathborne, Major Matterson of Kentucky (1894)
- William Le Queux, Stolen Souls (1895)
- Thomas Patrick Deegan, The Rescue of Victoria: The Beautiful Nihilist (1909)
