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A review by jdscott50
After Sappho by Selby Wynn Schwartz
emotional
informative
slow-paced
4.0
European women at the close of the 19th Century and the beginning of the 20th century bristle against the constraints of their time. Restrained from living a free life. Men get to rule, fight their little wars, and ensure women have no say in any of it. Instead of men, we will hear the biographies of women, the daughters of Sappho.
Rina Pierangel, Faccio, Romaine Brooks, Isadora Duncan, Sarah Bernhardt, Virginia Woolf, and many more are here with their adventures told. Who will be the one to create a masterwork to honor their mother, Sappho?
Told chronologically in brief biographical snippets, we see their frustrations and victories. This was a creative way of storytelling. Sort of a National Biography of Women. It introduces historical women of the era with their paintings, sculptures, plays, and writing. I had to look up a number of pieces that led to an immersive experience.
Rina Pierangel, Faccio, Romaine Brooks, Isadora Duncan, Sarah Bernhardt, Virginia Woolf, and many more are here with their adventures told. Who will be the one to create a masterwork to honor their mother, Sappho?
Told chronologically in brief biographical snippets, we see their frustrations and victories. This was a creative way of storytelling. Sort of a National Biography of Women. It introduces historical women of the era with their paintings, sculptures, plays, and writing. I had to look up a number of pieces that led to an immersive experience.