{"product_id":"from-childhood-to-girlhood-the-diary-of-a-young-artist-paperback","title":"From Childhood to Girlhood: The Diary of a Young Artist - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eMarie 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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":67951206138079,"sku":"9788027308705","price":10.6,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/ELjvMBUVT09788027308705.webp?v=1791607911","url":"https:\/\/blackandbarhe.com\/products\/from-childhood-to-girlhood-the-diary-of-a-young-artist-paperback","provider":"Black \u0026 Barhe Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}