Marie Bashkirtseff
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Marie Bashkirtseff, born Maria Konstantinovna Bashkirtseva, was an émigré artist who was born into a noble family on their estate near the city of Poltava. She lived and worked in Paris, and died at t
Bashkirtseff, 1878
Church of the Nativity of St. John the Baptist, where Maria was christened
Maria Bashkirtseva in a folk costume
The house of Bashkirtseffs in Gavrontsi
Mary MacLane
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Mary MacLane was a controversial Canadian-born American writer whose frank memoirs helped usher in the confessional style of autobiographical writing. MacLane was known as the "Wild Woman of Butte".
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…Affairs of Maupassant, directed by Henry Koster and released in the United States in 1938. 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…
MacLane in 1918
MacLane depicted on inside cover of a 1902 edition of The Story of Mary MacLane