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Harriet Scott Chessman. Chessman, like Lydia Cassatt, has allowed herself to inhabit another’s world with grace and humility. Entrancin. eartbreakin. akes itself felt long after one has finished the book. Elegantly conceived and tenderly written. This book beautifully limns the impact of art on a woman close to a great artist. A lovely, moving book,—elegant in its economy, delicately powerful. Chessman beautifully captures the rich relationship between model and painter. Tracy Chevalier, author of Girl with a Pearl Earring

Lydia Reading the Morning Paper (No. 1) (Woman Reading) (Femme lisant) (Portrait of Lydia Cassatt, the Artist's Sister), 1878–79 oil on canvas, 32 x 23 1/2 inches Joslyn Art Museum purchase, Joslyn Endowment Fund, 1942. 38" {{PD-US}} Source.

Lydia Reading the Morning Paper (No. The story proper goes into the final years of Lydia Cassatt, the reserved sister of the more extroverted Mary Cassatt, the American Impressionist painter. Or as they call each other, Lyddie and May. Oh, and Edgar Degas shows up as a supporting character.

Harriet Scott Chessman (born January 16, 1951) is an American author of four novels, including Lydia Cassatt Reading the Morning Paper, a Booksense Pick, Someone Not Really Her Mother.

Harriet Scott Chessman (born January 16, 1951) is an American author of four novels, including Lydia Cassatt Reading the Morning Paper, a Booksense Pick, Someone Not Really Her Mother, a Good Morning America book club choice, and The Beauty of Ordinary Things. Chessman's subjects often center on mortality, love, trauma, and the restorative power of art.

Inspired by five Mary Cassatt paintings of Cassatt's older sister, Lydia, Chessman (Ohio Angels) paints her own intimate portrait of the admirable Lydia, chronicling Lydia's thoughts and feelings as she models for Mary in Paris in the late 1870s and early 1880s. All the while, Lydia is conscious that she is dying of Bright's disease, and her thoughtful contemplation of her life and dashed hopes give shape to the tale.

ADVANCE READING COPYLYDIA CASSATT READING THE MORNING PAPER Takes us into the world of Mary Cassatt's early Impressionist paintings through Mary's sister Lydia, who posed for many of Mary's major paintings, and whom the author sees as Mary Cassatt's most inspiring muse. Chessman hauntingly brings to life Paris in 1880, with its thriving art work.

Harriet Scott Chessman takes us into the world of Mary Cassatt's early Impressionist paintings through Mary's sister Lydia, whom the author sees as Cassatt’s most inspiring muse. Chessman hauntingly brings to life Paris in 1880, with its thriving art world. The novel’s subtle power rises out of a sustained inquiry into art’s relation to the ragged world of desire and mortality. Ill with Bright’s disease and conscious of her approaching death, Lydia contemplates her world narrowing.

The life of Impressionist painter Mary Cassatt is skillfully fictionalized in this powerful novel about art and passion, narrated by the artist's sister, Lydia

The life of Impressionist painter Mary Cassatt is skillfully fictionalized in this powerful novel about art and passion, narrated by the artist's sister, Lydia.

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