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Jan 26Liked by Sarah McCraw Crow

Very much enjoyed reading more about Emily Sargent, thank you!

As for reading in 2023 I loved rediscovering Phillippa Gregory's Plantagenet novels, especially The Red Queen which is written from the perspective of a really rather horrible woman that you can't help rooting for! Also I finally read Artemisia by Anna Banti which was written in the 1940s about Artemisia Gentileschi, a really fascinating Baroque painter that I'm sure you'll have heard of. It was a really strange and memorable book, with a great backstory woven into the book itself. I'd love to know if anyone else has read it. Keep writing!

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Jan 31Liked by Sarah McCraw Crow

Any chance you’d share your Sargent novel? He’s always been a favorite of mine. The MFA exhibit was a highlight of my winter! I would have loved to have you as my guide with all of your insider information! Thank you for sharing about both Sargents in these two posts. I enjoyed every word!

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Fascinating - wow, what incredible painters. I adore the colors. Very inspiring.

I'm reading Lady Tan's Circle of Women by Lisa See and listening to the audiobook of Cutting for Stone; it has some of the most incredible language I've ever heard and I can't wait to read Covenant of Water next.

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I’ve thoroughly enjoyed reading these - thank you! Please do more like this

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Jan 21Liked by Sarah McCraw Crow

Wonderful. Thank you for sharing this intriguing history. I love the early works of John-the street scene with the woman and 2 men and also the three women stirs the imagination and suggest so many stories. His portraits and stunningly beautiful of course but different from these.

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Jan 21Liked by Sarah McCraw Crow

Another beautiful book about a sister to a famous artist--Vanessa and Her Sister by Priya Parmar about Vanessa Bell and Virginia Woolf.

Loved this account of the Sargents.

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Jan 21Liked by Sarah McCraw Crow

It’s always such a thrill to see an image of a woman painter going at it. Do you know Honor Moore’s The White Blackbird? About her grandmother, another Sargent painter (Margarett). A rollicking informative read.

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Jan 21Liked by Sarah McCraw Crow

How talented Emily was. And how strange that Henry James, with his acute sense of character, would call the portrait of the Boit sisters “cozy.” I find it brimful of loneliness. I recommend Erica Hirshler’s biography of the painting and see that it has also inspired a novel, which I haven’t read.

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Jan 21Liked by Sarah McCraw Crow

As always, I learn so much by reading your blog. Sending you warm thoughts on this cold winter morning.

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The title itself.. slightly offensive to some. I would be as a woman!

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