 Bashkirtseff's journal was first published in 1887, and was only the second diary by a woman published in France to that date.It was an immediate success, not least because its cosmopolitan confessional style was a marked departure from the contemplative, mystical diaries of the writer Eugénie de Guérin that had been published in 1862.An English translation appeared two years later under the title "Marie Bashkirtseff