Re: [LM_NET] Can you help with a book title?

[Christine Rayl <cjrayl@YAHOO.COM>]

Could it be Birth of Venus by Sarah Dunant?
The story sounds the same and it is a great book! 

Christine Rayl, Librarian
Bowie Elementary
Grand Prairie ISD, TX



--- On Sun, 10/5/08, Jacqueline Henry <jhenry@GANANDA.ORG> wrote:

> From: Jacqueline Henry <jhenry@GANANDA.ORG>
> Subject: [LM_NET] Can you help with a book title?
> To: LM_NET@LISTSERV.SYR.EDU
> Date: Sunday, October 5, 2008, 3:14 PM
> I read a book about 2 years ago that I absolutely loved.  I
> would like
> to read more by the same author.  Of course - I cannot for
> the life of
> me remember either the title or the author.  the book was
> for adults -
> but i have students who are mature enough to handle it -
> and would love
> it.  Here is the basic story:
> 
> Girl from a wealthy Florentine family during the
> renaissance is a born
> artist.  Because women were not considered the equal of
> men, she was not
> given any access to art training - or even to supplies. 
> She needed to
> hide her art work and improvise her own paints etc. 
> Eventually she was
> married off disastrously to an older man.  Falls in love
> with an artist
> hired by her father.  Eventually she is accused of being a
> witch when
> Savonarola comes into power in the city.  
> 
> Can anyone help with this title.  I think my students who
> love "Pillars
> of the earth" and "world without end" will
> love this one.   Thanks in
> advance for access to the amazing collective brain!!
> 
> Jacquie
> 
> “Education is not about filling a pail, it’s about
> lighting a fire."  ~
> William Butler Yeats
> 
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