The century illustrated monthly magazine (1882) (14595762558)

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Title: The century illustrated monthly magazine
Year: 1882 (1880s)
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Subjects: American literature
Publisher: New York : Century Co.
Contributing Library: Lincoln Financial Foundation Collection
Digitizing Sponsor: The Institute of Museum and Library Services through an Indiana State Library LSTA Grant



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compunction, of her unsealing a letterfrom one doctor to another — a piece of dis-honesty which even the law punishes severely,but which she does not appear to think wrong.Her attitude towards marriage would interestan American from its business-like tone in con-trast to her visionary hopes and plans for heraccomplishments and fame. Fame is her con-stant desire and cry from childhood. She thinksof it as a thing to be done, not as the result ofsomething better done for itself or for humanity. In reading this journal one cannot help ask-ing ones self if the self-analysis which it attemptsis a possible thing, or a useful experiment.Goethe called his confessions Poesy andTruth ; and Marie Bashkirtseff, though shehas no sense of poetry and strives after truth,gives us really a less vivid and less sympa-thetic view of herself than if she had fused herjournal into an artistic form — as perhapsGeorge Eliot did in her painting of MaggieTulliver. It is curious, she says in the preface ; it
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;n possession of her mother. MARIE BASHKIRTSEFF. (FROM A PORTRAIT BY HERSELF.) ENGRAVED BY C. STATE.