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Book Review By Harriet Klausner
With Violets by Elizabeth Robards



Five Star, Jan 2005, 26.95, 317 pp.
ISBN: 1410402223

In 1868 in the Louvre, Berthe Morisot practices painting by copying the masters. Usually she is accompanied by her sister and her mother, but today she is alone except for her friend Rosalie Riesener. Another friend, Monsieur Fantin, joins the two young women and introduces them to renowned artist Edouard Manet. He flirts with Berthe and even changes her drawing slightly though she lectures him for doing so.

Berthe is attracted to Edouard, but is horrified to learn her new admirer is married to a pianist named Suzanne. The budding female artist also meets Edouard's brother Eugene; soon the brothers compete for the affection of Berthe. Will she choose the single brother, the famous married brother, or neither brother?

Harriet Klausner


Plot & Themes
Time/era of story
Love Triangles/Polygons Yes
What kind:
Marriage/Married Yes
Marriage subplot:

Main Male Character
Profession/status:
Age/status: - 20's-30's

Main Female Character - 20's-30's
Profession/status:

Setting
Europe Yes
European country: - France

Writing Style
Accounts of torture and death? - no torture/death
What % of story is romance related? - 70%
Focus of story - equally on 3 in a l-triangle
How much dialog - significantly more dialog than descript
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