Translation comparison: The Comely Cook

Last summer I decided it wasn’t right to let Nikolai Karamzin’s “Poor Liza” (Бедная Лиза, 1792) represent the whole eighteenth century in a survey course. I doubted I’d be able to teach Mikhail Chulkov’s The Comely Cook, or The Adventures of a Debauched Woman (Пригожая повариха, или Похождение развратной женщины, 1770), because what were the odds it […]