TY! Meanwhile the annoying thing is that I want to find out what happened that made Marie Bashkirtseff toss her clock into the sea - but there's no mention of which journal Judy read that in, and there are multiple editions of Marie's journals. Sigh.

Random bit of fun - I said that before googling more throughly!
http://books.google.com/books?id=FooVAAAAYAAJ&lpg=PA307&ots=KHmXRuY2JO&dq=why%20did%20Marie%20Bashkirtseff%20throw%20clock%20into%20the%20sea&pg=PA307#v=onepage&q=why%20did%20Marie%20Bashkirtseff%20throw%20clock%20into%20the%20sea&f=false
Apparently it was just something about the clock?