{"product_id":"from-childhood-to-girlhood-marie-bashkirtseff-9788027308705","title":"From Childhood to Girlhood: The Diary of a Young Artist","description":"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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Marie Bashkirtseff, Mary J. Safford\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 8027308704\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9788027308705\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e E-Artnow\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 12\/30\/2020\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 72\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.24lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.02h x 5.98w x 0.15d","brand":"Marie Bashkirtseff","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43943960543487,"sku":"9788027308705","price":5.8,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/products\/img_132ccd7c-bf5a-4a03-b870-2fc45f203352.jpg?v=1681500992","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/from-childhood-to-girlhood-marie-bashkirtseff-9788027308705","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}