MARIE & THE DUKE OF H Doris Langley Moore
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MARIE & THE DUKE OF H Doris Langley Moore
First edition, first print of Marie & the Duke of H - The Daydream Love Affair of Marie Bashkirtseff, by Doris Langley Moore and published by Cassell Company Ltd in 1966. The book itself is invery good condition. The dust jacket, which is not price clipped, has some minor wear (one small tear at the top of the spine and a one inch tear at the bottom, corners bumped, rubbing and creasing, covers slightly soiled). The brown boards and gold lettering are still very clean and bright. It is only the jacket that has any wear. Internally,the pages are clean and tight and there are no tears and no inscriptions, and hardly any signs of ageing.This book is drawn only from the first year of Marie Bashkirtseff's Journal, and yet it entailed a considerable amount of travel and investigation, and comparison of the original manuscripts with the well-known printed sources, none of which proved reliable. It also involved getting a translation made for the first time of the Russian in which part of the early diary is written, and a correspondence extending from Moscow to Chicago, and from the Ukraine to the Hebrides.The result is a work which, while explaining and filling in the background, offers more than any previous publication of Marie's original attempt to set down the truth about herself at a particularly interesting stage of her girlhood. She emerges as a capricious, headstrong, high-spirited young girl of brilliant talent and untiring will power - worldly even in her daydreams, her infatuations always based, as she was at pains to point out on considerations of social status.
Much of the period covered in this book is taken up with Marie's ardent reveries about the12th Duke of Hamilton, a sporting nobleman of great wealth whom she resolved - on the strength of distant glimpses of him - to marry. But she also touches on many other aspects of her day to day life, giving us a picture of her family and their Russian friends so vivid and exotic that at times the characters seem to have been created by Dostoevsky.
300 pages, illustrated with black & white photographs and one colour frontispiece. Some photographs are of paintings Marie did when she was a young teenager. There are also two photographs of pages from her diary.
ISBN: none
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