Message #179845

[Dawn Moline]

I think that Lizzie’s illustration of Pippa Passes demonstrates that at this time (1854), her work was progressing and improving.  I can see so much potential for what Lizzie’s body of work could have become had the circumstances of her life been different.   And then we fall into playing the “what if” or the “if only” game, as we do with so many other famous talents struck down before fully making their mark.  I don’t want to play that game.  Instead, I choose to use it as an inspiration – a method to inspire me to remember that I have this day and these circumstances which far more talented women in the centuries before me could never have enjoyed.

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