Guest Blogger Sheramy Bundrick on "Who Was Rachel"
I was so excited when author Sheramy Bundrick contacted me about guest blogging on Scandalous Women. Her new book Sunflowers about artist Vincent van Gogh has been winning rave reviews. Publisher's Weekly wrote (in a starred review), " A knockout debut novel...an impressive volume of suspense, delight, and heartbreak." Please welcome Sheramy to the blog! It is truly the discovery of a new hemisphere in a person’s life when he falls seriously in love. -Vincent van Gogh The Sunday newspaper in Arles, Le Forum Républicain, featured a brief story in its 30 December 1888 issue about an incident that had happened just before Christmas. The article begins: “Last Sunday at 11:30 pm, one Vincent Vangogh, painter of Dutch origin, presented himself at the maison de tolérance no. 1, asked for a certain Rachel, and gave her his ear, saying ‘Guard this object very carefully.’ Then he disappeared.” We know Vincent van Gogh, of course, as perhaps the world’s most famous artist, beloved...