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| | Books: Designing women (NewCity . 10-13-97) |
 | | But as "The Portrait of Zlide," a biography by Geoffrey Scott, and "I Am the Most Interesting Book of All: The Dairy of Marie Bashkirtseff," show, both of these woman were formidable in their own very different ways. |
 | | Published in 1925 and out of print for almost 40 years, Scott's "Portrait" depicts the remarkable and ultimately tragic life of Isabella van Serooskerken van Tuyll, born to a wealthy Dutch family in 1740. |
 | | Scott draws most of his biography from Zlide's voluminous correspondence, particularly the intimate letters of her youth to Constant D'Hermenches, a married man who served as her intellectual mentor and confidant, and her later missives to his nephew, Benjamin Constant. |
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