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Marie Bashkirtseff Collection

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This is a finding aid. It is a description of archival material held at the Princeton University Library: Rare Book Collection. Unless otherwise noted, the materials described below are physically available in their reading room, and not digitally available through the web.

Overview and metadata sections

Call Number:
TC135
Repository:
Princeton University Library: Rare Book Collection
Extent:
  • 10 items
  • 0.4 linear feet
Language:
English
Preferred Citation:
Identification of specific item; Date (if known); Marie Bashkirtseff Collection, Box and Folder Number; Special Collections, Princeton University Library.
Date:
1922-1937 (inclusive)
Creator:
Bashkirtseff, Marie, 1860-1884.
Form:
Book reviews.
Abstract:
The Marie Bashkirtseff Collection consists of newspaper and book reviews about her published journal and later biographies about her; one engraved portrait; one engraved illustration.

Bashkirtseff, Marie, 1860-1884.

Born on November 11, 1858 in the Ukraine, Mariya Konstantinovna Bashkirtseva was the daughter of Russian nobility. She spent much of her childhood with her mother in Germany until they settled in Paris. Bashkirtseva began a singing career, studied art, and is best known for her autobiography in French, Journal of Marie Bashkirtseff (1887). Bashkirtseva died of tuberculosis just before her 24th birthday.

Consists of newspaper and book reviews about her published journal and later biographies about her; one engraved portrait; one engraved illustration.

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Publisher
Rare Book Collection
Finding Aid Date
2003
Access Restrictions

Collection is open for research use.

Use Restrictions

Single photocopies may be made for research purposes. No further photoduplication of copies of material in the collection can be made when Princeton University Library does not own the original. Permission to publish material from the collection must be requested from the Associate University Librarian for Special Collections. The library has no information on the status of literary rights in the collection and researchers are responsible for determining any questions of copyright.

Collection Inventory

1. "Marie Bashkirtseff": oval engraved portrait, dates not examined. 1 item.
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1 item

2. "A difficult question" engraving from Pall Mall Magazine. "Bashkirschiff pinxit. Printed by Lemercier Paris.", dates not examined. 1 item.
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1 item

3. "New revelations of 'La Bashkirtseff': copybook discovered in Nice villa after death of her mother." Dated in ms, 1922. 1 item.
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1 item

4. "New Bashkirtseff diary discovered: Young Russian girl whose memoirs were a literary sensation left other work." Dated in ms. Times, February 4. 1 item.
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1 item

5. Book review of Mrs. Marie Saltus's "Edgar Saltus: The man" in which is mentioned a revised edition [published 1928] by Dutton of Mary Serrano's translation of Bashkirtseff's journal, dates not examined. 1 item.
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1 item

6. "Moussia: The life and death of Marie Bashkirtseff," by Alberic Cahuet. New York Times book review, 1930 June 22. 1 item.
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1 item

7. "Intimate explorations" by Leonard Bacon. Saturday Review book review of "Fountains of youth" by Dormer Creston, Dutton, 1937. 1 item.
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1 item

8. "An explorer of her own self" by Lloyd Morris. Book review of "Fountains of Youth" by Dormer Creston, Dutton, 1937. Dated in ms, 1937 March 14. 1 item.
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1 item

9. "The fabulous Marie Bashkirtseff" by Katherine Woods. New York Times book review of "Fountains of Youth" by Dormer Creston, Dutton, 1937. 1 item.
Physical Description

1 item

10. "Marie Bashkirtseff" by Josephine Lazarus. Scribner's magazine, vol. 6, issue 5 1889 November; pp. [633]-640, 1889 November. 1 item.
Physical Description

1 item

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