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Ethel Lilian Voynich, née Boole (1864–1960) was a novelist and musician, and a supporter of several revolutionary causes. Her father was the famous mathematician George Boole. Her mother was feminist philosopher Mary Everest, niece of George Everest and an author for the early-20th-century periodical Crank. In 1893 she married Wilfrid Michael Voynich, revolutionary, antiquarian and bibliophile, the eponym of the Voynich manuscript.

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.

WRITINGS BY ELV:

BOOKS
The Gadfly (New York: Holt, 1897; London: Heinemann, 1897).
Jack Raymond (London: Heinemann, 1901; New York: Mershon, 1901; Philadelphia: Lippincott, 1901).
Olive Latham (London: Heinemann, 1904; Philadelphia: Lippincott, 1904).
An Interrupted Friendship(London: Hutchinson, 1910; New York: Macmillan, 1910).
Put off Thy Shoes (New York: Macmillan, 1945; London: Heinemann, 1945).

TRANSLATIONS
V. M. Garshin, Stories from Garshin (London: Unwin, 1893).
Sergei Stepniak and Felix Volkhovsky, Nihilism as It Is (London: Unwin, 1894).
The Humour of Russia (London: Scott, 1895; New York: Scribner, 1895).
Mikhail Lermontov, Six Lyrics from the Ruthenian of Taras Shevchenko also The Song of the Merchant Kalashnikov from the Russian of Mikhail Lermontov, with a biographical sketch by Voynich (London: Elkin Mathews, 1911).
Frédéric Chopin, Chopin's Letters, edited by Henryk Opienski, with a preface and editorial notes by Voynich (New York: Knopf, 1931; London: Harmondsworth, 1932).