Saturday, December 25th, 1875

Today’s entry is from The new journal of Marie Bashkirtseff: from childhood to girlhood (1912), courtesy of The Public Domain Review (www.publicdomainreview.org). Bashkirtseff was born in the Ukraine in 1858, traveled across Europe and finally settled in France. She was an accomplished sculptor, painter and diarist, and died at the too-young age of 25.