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    Marie Bashkirtseff: From Childhood to Girlhood, Diary of a Young Artist
    Marie Bashkirtseff: From Childhood to Girlhood, Diary of a Young Artist
    Marie Bashkirtseff: From Childhood to Girlhood, Diary of a Young Artist
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    Marie Bashkirtseff: From Childhood to Girlhood, Diary of a Young Artist

    By Marie Bashkirtseff

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    Marie Bashkirtseff's diary was first published in 1887, and was only the second diary by a woman published in France till that date. It was an immediate success. British Prime Minister William Gladstone referred to her diary as "a book without a parallel", and another early admirer was George Bernard Shaw. Her diary was cited as an inspiration by the American writer Mary MacLane, whose own shockingly confessional diary was written a bare generation later, and it was mentioned as a model by later writers who became known for their diaries, including Pierre Louÿs, Katherine Mansfield, and Anais Nin. Bashkirtseff's diary has been called "a strikingly modern psychological self-portrait of a young, gifted mind," and her urgent prose, which occasionally breaks out into dialogue, remains extremely readable. She was multilingual and despite her self-involvement, was a keen observer with an acute ear for hypocrisy, so that her diary also offers a near-novelistic account of the late nineteenth century European bourgeoisie. A consistent theme throughout her journal is her deep desire to achieve fame, inflected by her increasing fear that her intermittent illnesses might turn out to be tuberculosis.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherMusaicum Books
    Release dateDec 17, 2020
    ISBN4064066393182
    Marie Bashkirtseff: From Childhood to Girlhood, Diary of a Young Artist

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