Bashkirtseff

Bashkirtseff, MARIE, artist and diarist, was born of noble family at Poltava in the Ukraine, 11th November 1860, and died of consumption, on the 31st October 1884, at Paris, where she had become famous as a brilliant member of society, a woman of marvellous accomplishments, and a painter of very high promise. Her Journal (trans. from the French by Miss Blind, 1890) is a startling, sincere, vivid, and pathetic record of a life in which strenuous labour was but an element in a whirl of the keenest joys and griefs, the triumphs and disappointments of a nature singularly impressionable and sensitive, as well as vain and ambitious. Her Letters (Eng. trans. by Miss Serrano 1891) have also been published.