When my mom died in July, I was already working on a project entitled THE BEHOLDER dealing with women in the period from the French Revolution to WWII. But after my mom’s death, certain events made me realize that my mom should be telling the story and not me. So I’m recycling my notes to make my mom the protagonist as she is Everywoman.
It will take much time to actualize because, before each story, much research has to be done and then that research has to be heavily edited to create a flow. As I finish related posts, I will add the links below:
Works in Progress:
Part 1
Whirling
Ann Radcliff
Angelica Kaufmann & Goethe
Part 2
Thomas Jefferson President
Napoleon and Madame De Stael
Paolina Bonaparte
Jamaica
Belinda, before and after
George III and mental health
Regency Period (1811-1820):
Quakers
Molly and Marble
Jane Austin
Stendhal breaks down and creates syndrome 1817
Marie-Thérèse …after Waterloo, the Restoration 1815
Lady Emma Hamilton and Tableau Vivants
Mary Shelly and Co. 1819
Ottoman Empire & Lord Byron’s death at Missolonghi 1824
Greek Revolution, Mada Mavrogenous (Μαντώ Μαυρογένους))
Jane Digby (1807-1881)
Cristina Trivulzio Belgiojoso, Salonniere in Paris 1830
Giacomo and Paolina Leopardi,, Il mondo non è bello se non veduto da lontano. Lettere 1812-1835
Battle of the Alamo 1836
Part 3
The Copyist
Ekphrasis and The New Beholders
Kierkegaarde and Regine Olsen (1841)
Anna Jameson in Rome 1845
Lola Montez mistress of Ludwig I 1846
Marie Duplessis (1824-1847)
Revolutions of 1848
Pre-Raphaelites founded 1848
Marie d’Agoult (Liszt and Sand)
Florence Nightengale & Crimean War 1853
Elizabeth Gaskell publishes Bronte bio 1857
Charles Dickens & Ellen Ternan 1857
Risorgimento
Maria Sophia of Bavaria in Rome 1860
Margaret Fuller and Transcendentalists
Sisterhood in Rome
Nanna Risi and Frederic Leighton The Burden of Beauty
Rosa Bonheur
Effie Gray & Millais 1855
Victo Hugo & Adele 1856 Stories set in stone
Aestheticism 1860s
American Civil War
Frances annexes Cambogia 1863
Loncoln shot 1865
Queen Victoria
harriet martineau
Jeanne Duval dies 1862
Carlota of Mexico in Rome 1866
Rosa Taddei dies 1869
Franco-Prussian War 1870
Victoria Hullwood 1872 runs for President
Battle of Little Bighorn 1876
The Gileded Age begins 1876
Mary Cassatt and Degas 1877
First Boer War 1880
Eleanor Marx & Bovary 1886
Nellie Bly’s trip around the world 1888
Vernon Lee moves to Il Palmerino 1889
Suzanne Valadon 1893 begins affair with Satie
Henry James & Constance Fenimore Woolson who suicides 1894
Italo-Ethiopian War 1896 & Empress Taytu
Empress Sissi’s death 1898
Wounded Knee Massacre 1890
Empress Cixi’s coup d’etat 1898
Well’s War of the Worlds 1898
Kate Chopin’s Awakening 1899
Wizard of Oz 1900
King Umberto I assassinated 1900
Universal Expo in Paris 1900
Art Nouveau
Mark Twain and wife move to Florence where she dies 1903
The Gaze of Victorine Meurent lives Paris 1906
When love leaves without you the Tolstoys 1910
Sarajevo Archduke Franz Ferdinand assassinated 1914
Camille Claudel begs to be released 1917
Mexican Revolution and Adelitas “Adelita or Die Lorelei?”
Russian Revolution
WWI
the Need for Social Evolution
c. 1981 wearing a huipil while showing my mom around La Maremma
The Narrative Within 