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You can purchase Byrne’s latest novel, Six Weeks by the Sea, HERE.

Paula Bryne is a British author and literary critic. She has written several acclaimed and best-selling biographies, including her biographies on Dido Elizabeth Belle, Mary Robinson, and Jane Austen. She is also the founder and Chief Executive of ReLit, a charity dedicated to promoting literature for mental health.

If you have not yet listened to ArtMuse’s two part episode on Dido Elizabeth Belle, which shares her full life-story, then we encourage you to listen as an accompanying episode to this interview. Season Three of ArtMuse, which explores the life-stories of artist models who were also performers in their own right, will kick off with a two part episode on Mary Robinson. This interview with Paula Byrne, which deep dives into Mary Robinson’s story, is the perfect teaser to ArtMuse's Season Three opener.

Dido Elizabeth Belle is considered to be England’s first female aristocrat of color. Dido was born to an enslaved mother and white father. As a child, she was brought from the Caribbean to England, and taken in by her great uncle, Lord Mansfield, who happened to be the most powerful judge in all of England. Dido was thus raised in his home, at Kenwood House, which today is a historical house and museum. As a judge, Lord Mansfield ruled over many important cases pertaining to slavery, and it is believed that Dido’s presence in his home influenced his sympathetic rulings that eventually paved the way for abolition in England. Dido was famously captured in a portrait by David Martin, a copy of which today hangs at Kenwood House in honor of her.

Mary Robinson was an 18th century British actress, poet, writer, activist, and intellectual. During her days as a leading actress on Drury Lane, Mary famously caught the eye of the Prince of Wales, whom she had an affair with. Later in life, after a tragic accident that took away her ability to walk, Mary Robinson shifted courses, and became a prolific writer. In her long writing career, Mary wrote several novels, collections of poems, plays, and published essays. Much of her writing was radical by nature and advocated for both women’s rights and the abolition of slavery. In her lifetime, Mary was painted by the renowned portraitists Sir Joshua Reynolds, Thomas Gainsborough, George Romney, and John Hoppner.

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Lori Zimmer is an author, curator, and historian based in New York. She has written a number of non-fiction books, including Art Hiding in New York and Art Hiding in Paris, both incredible guides to art hiding in plain sight in each respective city. Lori Zimmer also consults as an artist liaison in copyright infringement cases, and has been an independent curator for over a decade. She also served on the Historic Districts Council of New York’s Board of Advisors from 2022 to 2024.

Maria Krasinski, who illustrated I’m Not Your Muse, is an illustrator, artist, and educator currently based in Paris. Fun fact: she was also a contestant on the popular game show, Jeopardy.

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Jennifer Dasal is an art historian, author, and podcast host. Her podcast Art Curious explores the “unexpected, slightly odd, and strangely wonderful in Art History”. Art Curious has been featured in The Opera Magazine, NPR, and ArtDaily.

Dasal is also the former curator of modern and contemporary art at the North Carolina Museum of Art, where she worked for over a decade. In 2020, she published ArtCurious: Stories of the Unexpected, Slightly Odd, and Strangely Wonderful in Art History. And her latest book, The Club: Where American Women Artists Found Refuge in Belle Epoque Paris, has just hit the shelves this July.

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Kiki Man Ray: Art, Love and Rivalry in 1920’s Paris can be ordered online HERE.

Mark Braude is the author of three non-fiction books, Kiki Man Ray being his third. He has been a National Endowment for the Humanities Public Scholar, a visiting fellow at the American Library in Paris, and a postdoctoral fellow at Stanford University. He is currently based in Vancouver, Canada, where he lives with his family.

For those who haven’t yet listened to our episode on Kiki de Montparnasse, Kiki was an artist’s model, performer, painter, actress, and memoirist active in Paris during the roaring twenties. Over her lifetime Kiki became one of the most prolific art models in the history of western art, modeling for many of the best painters of her day, as well as the photographer Man Ray, with whom she shared an eight-year long relationship with. Over the course of their affair, Man Ray took hundreds of photographs of Kiki. Kiki played an integral role in the creation of each of these works, co-collaborating on them with Man Ray, despite receiving no official credit.

But Kiki was far more than just Man Ray’s muse. She was also an artist in her own right, and her creativity took many forms. Kiki was an accomplished painter, cabaret performer, and published her own autobiography when she was only twenty-eight years old. Though Kiki de Montparnasse fell into relative obscurity after her death, she deserves to be remembered as the visionary and independent woman she was; a woman who inspired masterpieces by the greatest artists of her age, who painted with unrestrained expression and sang with bravado, whose memoir gained international recognition, and whose free spirit came to symbolize an entire era of European history.

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Francine Prose is a renowned American author and critic. She has published several non-fiction books, including The Lives of the Muses, as well as several novels, essays, and short-stories. She has also contributed works to major publications such as The New York Times and The New Yorker. Her novel Blue Angel was a finalist for the National Book award, and her novel A Changed Man, won the Dayton Literary Peace Prize. Prose is also the former president of PEN American Center and holds the title of Distinguished Writer in Residence at Bard College, where she is currently a professor.

If you have not yet listened to ArtMuse’s episodes on Elizabeth Siddall and Gala Dali, you can find these episodes by searching for ArtMuse on all streaming platforms, as well as on our website: www.artmusepodcast.com.

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Art of History is available to listen on all streaming platforms and on their website.

You can also find them on Instagram @artofhistorypodcast.

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You can find Ladies Who Lore on all major streaming platforms, as well as Instagram and TikTok.

In each episode of Ladies Who Lore, hosts Jessie Vane, Lindsay Whisler, and Sammy Winchester, share thrilling urban legends, ghost stories, and folklore, with tips on wines to pair!

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Season Three will include episodes on:

Mary Robinson
Marian Anderson
Evelyn Nesbit
Sarah Bernhardt
Jeanne Duval
Adrienne Fidelin
Isadora Duncan
Rachel Félix
Eleonora Duse
Picasso’s Performing Muses: Suzanne Bloch & Olga Khokhlova

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