Bashkirtseff

Bashkirtseff’s journals were published in 1887, after her death from TB, and became a TFIOS-like international hit.

But Savage also describes the 1875 journals of French 17-year-old Marie Bashkirtseff—an eloquent girl who is as fixated upon 24-year-old Emile Audriffet as TFIOS’s clever and articulate Hazel Grace Lancaster becomes with Augustus Waters, and likewise suffers from life-threatening illness, the symptoms of undiagnosed tuberculosis.

Marie Bashkirtseff, struck down by a cruel and premature death, at the age of twenty-three, revealed something far more than mere happy gifts.

"Almond Blossom in London," 143.Bashkirtseff,

Marie: "A Meeting," 293;"Portrait of Marie Bashkirtseff," 315;"Portrait of the Comtesse de Toulouse," 315.Bauck,