AT THE PICTURES: Marie but not Bashkirtseff
... AT THE PICTUKEJ Marie but no! Bashkirtseff WHAT do I remember about Marie Bashkirtseff? I was ten years old when the Diary was first published, but I was alive to the extraordinary stir it made. Mr. Gladstone gave tongue about it. And I wasn't allowed to read it. I remember somebody writing about her: The world into which this Russian child was born was a world in which wasp-waisted women ...