| Ethel Lilian Voynich |
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| 1864 births | |
| 1960 deaths | |
| people from county cork | |
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She is most famous for her novel '' The Gadfly '', first published in 1897 in the United States (June) and Britain (September), about the struggles of an international revolutionary in Italy . This novel was very popular in the Soviet Union and was the top best seller and compulsory reading there, and was seen as ideologically useful; for similar reasons, the novel has been popular in the People's Republic Of China as well. By the time of Voynich's death ''The Gadfly'' had sold an estimated 2,500,000 copies in the Soviet Union. In wrote the score (see '' The Gadfly Suite ''). The '' Romance '', a segment from this composition, along with some other excerpts, has since become very popular. Shostakovich's Gadfly theme was also used in the eighties, in the BBC TV series about Reilly's life. TRIVIA According to historian of the Metropolitan Police Special Branch .Page 39, Andrew Cook, ''Ace of Spies: The True Story of Sidney Reilly'', 2004, Tempus Publishing, ISBN 0-7524-2959-0. REFERENCES EXTERNAL LINK |
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