 She also translated works by Konstantin Paustovsky, Andrey Sinyavsky, Ilya Ehrenburg and Evgenia Ginzburg, among others.Born in Russia, as the fourth child and youngest daughter of Jewish financier Grigory Benenson and his wife, Sophie Goldberg, she migrated in 1914 with her family to London from Germany, where they had been visiting.She was educated at Malvern Girls College and at Bedford College, London, where she read history, graduating in 1924.