title: The Painters Daughter
author: Carol J Lewis
description: A story-spinner since she could speak, Carol Lewis was born in Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan, in 1955, and always felt she was living in the wrong place and time. Diamante is the manifestation of her imaginative compensation, allowing Carol to live the life that she was meant to embrace. In writing this book, she has made every effort to keep the historical references accurate. The majority of her characters are in fact historical and lived in the places and at the times mentioned in Diamantes journal. Carol is an eclectic artist, working in the widest variety of media, from cloth to acrylic paints, thread on canvas to words on paper. She is a mother of two amazing daughters, four incredible grandchildren and hostmother to just under 200 International Language Students from around the world. Devoted to DYI and becoming all you can be, and to realizing your future in the researching of the past, Carol hopes you will never stop learning and that you enjoy reading the personal journal of her SCA Persona, Diamante da Magenta, as much as she enjoyed writing it!
zlib_text: # The Painter’s Daughter
  
  ![](Image00000.jpg) Chalk Pastel rendering _after DaVinci_ – C. Lewis
  
  ###  **The Painter’s Daughter**  
  _A diary in which life’s truths are presented without prejudice._ **CAROL
  LEWIS**
  
  Carol Lewis
  
  All rights reserved. ISBN:-13:978-1496070029 ISBN-10:149607002X DEDICATION
  
  Dedicated to anyone who has ever struggled to find themselves in the carefully
  nurtured creation of a new  
  persona, someone who cannot have been, but could have been, and is.
  
  This work is dedicated to  
  donna Diamante da Magenta,  
  the adored, greatly indulged and privileged daughter of a painter.  
  I especially dedicate this novel to my precious and much loved grandchildren,  
  _Lex, Ailish, Declan & Quinn_
  
  ACKNOWLEDGMENTS  
  My daughters, _Kristen & Jordan_ , loved stories.
  
  They loved them from books, in movies, on the stage in theatre,  
  sung in Opera and danced in Ballet.
  
  When they were still very little, they best loved the stories I made up for
  them from my imagination. They were