Books In Sync Recognizes Author Carole M. Lidgold

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She tried politics but lostout and has since worked as a secretary, currently retired as a churchsecretary.   Featuring: Birds On My Brush by Carole M.Lidgold InApril 1763, unknown artist and naturalist, Elizabeth (nee Symonds) Gwillim wasborn in England . She accompanied her husband, Henry, to Madras , India , in the 1800s, where she died in 1807. In London , England , in 1924, a Dr. Casey Wood, surgeon and ornithologist,discovered in an 'out of the way shop of arts', Elizabeth Gwillim's watercolourpaintings. Today, 2009, these painting, painted two decades before Audubonpublished his illustrious Birds of America, are part of the Blacker-Woodcollection of Zoology and Natural History, at McGill University , Montreal , Quebec . Prints of several of her painting of India 's birds are included in this novel.   About The Story: BirdsOn My Brush is a novel based on the few known facts of the life and untimelydeath of Elizabeth Gwillim. My character, Sarah Purcell, was born in the springwhen birds were chirping the birth of their new offspring. As a child, andlater as and adult, Sarah was obsessed with sketching precise details of thebirds. She married William Cantwell, a barrister determined to live in the landof his boyhood hero, Robert Clive, and English hero in India 's development. Sarah's younger sister, Rose Purcell,accompanied them on this journey. Rose's tortured dream of death in India hampered her enjoyment of this new life.   Birds on My Brush Book Review: Acompelling account of an unknown artist's life!   Thelife and times of 18th-century wildlife artist Elizabeth Gwillim are shroudedin mystery and uncertainty. She was born in England in 1763 and moved to India with her husband in the early 1800s, where she workeddiligently to perfect her art.   Shenever achieved public recognition in her lifetime and she died, an obscure,undiscovered artist, in her mid-40s; it appeared, for the longest time, asthough her art may have gone to the grave with her.   Nearlytwo centuries later, Gwillim's wildlife watercolours were "discovered"in a London , England art shop. Today, in death, Gwillim has achieved what shecould not in life; her wildlife art, notably her precision sketches of birds,has been widely praised as among the finest of its era. Gwillim's work nowforms part of the Blacker-Wood Collection of Zoology and Natural History at McGill University in Montreal , one of Canada 's pre-eminent schools of higher learning.   CaroleM. Lidgold, a Canadian writer fascinated with Gwillim's life and art, haspainted a fascinating portrait of Gwillim's life in her new, fact-basedfictional novel entitled Birds on My Brush. Lidgold has taken what is known ofGwillim's history and has built around the edges, crafting a fully-realizednovel from the sketchy framework of Gwillim's remarkable life.   She hascreated a lead character, Sarah Purcell, utilizing the Purcell character as astandin for Gwillim, and producing a sweeping, engrossing tale that lovers ofart and history will find both hugely enjoyable and dramatically memorable.   Thestory covers the artist's life from the early years in England , through the productive artistic period in India , to the point of the artist's comparatively early death.Along the way, this much is made very clear: author Lidgold's fascination withGwillim's life and artwork shines brightly throughout the novel's 280 pages. Aparticular bonus for readers is that Birds on My Brush offers up not only somefactual context of the details of Gwillim's life, but also some representativesamples of her artistic work.   Lidgoldis an accomplished writer, whose stories typically brim with life and vitality.Birds on My Brush offers something beyond that – an historic and artisticintegrity that takes readers well back in time to contemplate the challenginglife of an artist who produced first-rate work, but couldn't break out from theprison of artistic obscurity.   Thenovel is a well-constructed triumph. It is a triumph that the artist herselfcould imagine only in her dreams. ReviewedBy Anonymous Reader   Book Details: Paperback: 280 Pages Publisher: Self-Published ( April 17, 2009 ) Language: English ISBN-10: 0968938116 ISBN-13: 978-0968938119 Genre: Fiction   Print List Price: $16.95   Amazon Purchase Link: http://www.amazon.com/Birds-My-Brush-Carole-Lidgold/dp/0968938116/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1265411333&sr=1-2   Purchase Directly From Author: (Use Pay Pal Button On TheWebpage or Email Author): http://www.booksinsync.com/authordirectory/lidgoldcarolem.html carole.lidgold@sympatico.ca   Books by Carole M. Lidgold   History: The History of the Guild Inn –ISBN: 0-9698244-8-3 Memories of Cayuga: Ontario ’s Love Boat – ISBN: 0-9698244-2-4 Steamship Cayuga: Toronto ’s Ship of Romance – ISBN: 0-9698244-3-2   Fiction: Faces of the Night – ISBN:0-9698244-5-9 Birds on My Brush - ISBN:9780968938119   Children: The Adventures of Inch Worm Willie– ISBN: 0-9698244-4-0 The Elf Who Made Snowflakes –ISBN: 0-9698244-6-7 Daisy Dee ’s Party –ISBN: 0-9698244-7-5   (All of Carole’s children's booksare fun stories for children of all nationalities, from picture book to story.All three children's books have pen and ink sketches with a colored laminatedcover to withstand constant reading.)   Poetry: Journey Into Christmas – ISBN:0-9698244-0-8   Author’s Webpage On Books In Sync: http://www.booksinsync.com/authordirectory/lidgoldcarolem.html   Author’s Email: carole.lidgold@sympatico.ca   Submitted by Theodocia McLean Owner of Books In Sync Website: http://www.booksinsync.com Submission Date: February 15, 2010

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