The Painted Girls (Wheeler publishing large print hardcover) (Hardcover)

from Jackie.the.Librarian

The Painted Girls tells the story of the early lives of the VanGoethem sisters during the Belle Époque of late 19th century Paris. There are 3 sisters but the story is only narrated by 2 of them: Antoinette and Marie. All of the sisters are affiliated with the Paris Opera Ballet. However these ar...

from michigantrumpet

This novel played to several of my many interests -- ballet, art, Paris, Zola, Degas, historical fiction. I was not disappointed. We follow the fortunes of the 1870's Parisian Van Goethem sisters, having lost their father. Their laundress mother seems lost in her absinthe bottle, leaving them in ...

from Stacey42

This is historic fiction about the real life VanGoethem sisters. It is narrated by Antoinette & Marie, though we learn about the third sister, Charlotte, as well. They lose their father when they are young and shortly after Marie & Charlotte are accepted into the Paris Opera dance school. Antoine...

from cameling

Historical fiction around the van Goethem sisters in the City of Lights in the late 1800s. Marie van Goethem and her younger sister Charlotte are excepted into the Opéra where they're paid pittance to be trained as ballet dancers. Marie catches the eye of Edgar Degas and models for him to make ex...

from Kimaoverstreet

Marie and Antoinette are young, fatherless, and living in desperate poverty in 1880's Paris. Their mother, a laundress, is addicted to absinthe and the two must rely on one another to take care of themselves and their younger sister, Charlotte. To earn money, Marie trains as a ballerina and poses...