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“I Am My Own Heroine”: How Marie Bashkirtseff Rewrote the Route to Fame

Wednesday 2 September 2020 at 14:01

The diary of Marie Bashkirtseff, published after her death from tuberculosis aged just 25, won the aspiring painter the fame she so longed for but failed to achieve while alive. Sonia Wilson explores the importance of the journal — one of the earliest bids by a woman to secure celebrity through curation of “personal brand” — and the shape it gave to female ambition in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

Source: https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/marie-bashkirtseff