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Linda Stewart Henley

Estelle: A Novel

Estelle: A Novel

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During his stay in New Orleans from 1872 to 1873, Edgar Degas is encouraged by his cousin Estelle to paint portraits of their family members. In 1970, Anne Gautier, a young artist, discovers connections between her ancestors and Degas while renovating the New Orleans house she has inherited. She finds two identical portraits of Estelle, which reveal disturbing truths and change her life as she searches for artistic expression. Estelle is a historical novel that combines mystery, family saga, art, and romance, exploring the man Degas was before he became famous.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 296 pages
Publication date: 10 September 2020
Publisher: She Writes Press


From 1872 to 1873, Edgar Degas visits his French Creole relatives in New Orleans, where Estelle, his cousin and sister-in-law, encourages the artist, who has not yet achieved recognition and struggles to find inspiration, to paint portraits of their family members. In 1970, Anne Gautier, a young artist, finds connections between her ancestors and Degas while renovating the New Orleans house she has inherited. When Anne finds two identical portraits of Estelle, she discovers disturbing truths that change her life as she searches for meaningful artistic expression—just as Degas did one hundred years earlier.

Estelle is a gripping historical novel told by two women living a century apart. It combines mystery, family saga, art, and romance in its exploration of the man Degas was before he became the artist famous around the world today. Anne Gautier finds two identical portraits of Estelle, which change her life as she searches for meaningful artistic expression. The novel explores the man Degas was before he became the artist famous around the world today.

Weight: 378g
Dimension: 140 x 216 x 21 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781631527913

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