Lena Milman

Milman translated Fyodor Dostoevsky's novel Poor Folk and contributed to Aubrey Beardsley's Yellow Book.

Near the end of her life she married a colonial administrator, Edward Ashley Clarke, living with him in Zanzibar from 1909 to 1913.

[2] She became a contributor to Aubrey Beardsley's Yellow Book, writing on Henry James, and later contributing a short story set in Venice.

A 1908-1910 scrapbook of Milman's experiences is held by the Melville J. Herskovits Library of African Studies at Northwestern University.

[4] While in Zanzibar, she wrote on the conversion by John Houston Sinclair, the architecturally trained British Resident, of a powder magazine into his country house.