Bashkirtseff

British  

/ bəʃˈkjirtsəf /

noun

1. Marie , original name Marya Konstantinovna Bashkirtseva . 1858–84, Russian painter and diarist who wrote in French, noted esp for her Journal (1887)

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Example Sentences

The Journals of Miss Alcott and Marie Bashkirtseff are stories of heart struggles, longings, failures, and triumphs, and are of exceeding interest and great popularity.

From The World's Best Books : A Key to the Treasures of Literature by Parsons, Frank

A similar work is performed by such highly personal confessants as Marie Bashkirtseff and W. N. P. Barbellion, and even by Mary MacLane.

From The Invisible Censor by Hackett, Francis

The journal of Marie Bashkirtseff is a great revelation of the hopes and imaginings and sufferings of a girl just entering that period of life when woman's world begins.

From A Man and a Woman by Waterloo, Stanley

This is, in some respects, a portrait of Marie Bashkirtseff, a young native of Russia, whose brief career as an artist attracted much notice.

From The Lure of the Camera by Olcott, Charles S.

Marie Bashkirtseff, in the terrible self-revealing journals which she wrote, describes a visit that she paid to some one who had expressed an interest in her and a desire to see her.

From From a College Window by Benson, Arthur Christopher