The Flower to the Painter Reviewed in The Copperfield Review

Jessica Garamondi wrote a very favorable (4 Quills) review of The Flower to the Painter for The Copperfield Review, an online journal devoted to Historical Fiction and Non-Fiction.

"This book is recommended for art fans and for anyone who wants to look at the art world from a woman’s point of view."

You can read the entire review in the current (Winter) issue of The Copperfield Review.
Gary

http://www.copperfieldreview.com/reviews/The%20Flower%20to%20the%20Painter.htm

Guest Post - English History Authors

Debra Brown, author of the fine Victorian Historical Novel, The Companion of Lady Holmeshire, has invited me to guest post on the English History Authors' Blog. The subject is: Writing Another Gender, Another Time.


http://englishhistoryauthors.blogspot.com/

Turner - Three Masterpieces

I've always admired the art of Joseph  Mallord William Turner (1775-1851), so it was only natural that I had my artist-heroine, Marcia Brownlow, admire him too. I recently guest posted a brief excerpt from The Flower to the Painter on Rachael De Vienne's blog. The three paragraphs describe Marcia's impressions upon first viewing three great Turners at London's National Gallery.

The year is 1877, a time of transition in the art world, with the Impressionists gaining recognition in Paris, while  London looks more to the works of the Academic Neo-Classicists, the Romantic Neo-Gothicists, the Pre-Raphaelites and their newer offshoot, The Aesthetic Movement. Marcia is torn between the old and the new. She ponders the present and future of art as she contemplates the work of one of the greatest painters of the recent past. Her reflections are accompanied by pictures of three Turner masterpieces.

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