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Mary Delany was seventy-two years old when she noticed a petal drop
from a geranium. In a flash of inspiration, she picked up her
scissors and cut out a paper replica of the petal, inventing the
art of collage. It was the summer of 1772, in England. During the
next ten years she completed nearly a thousand cut-paper botanicals
(which she called mosaicks) so accurate that botanists still refer
to them. Poet-biographer Molly Peacock uses close-ups of these
brilliant collages in The Paper Garden to track the extraordinary
life of Delany, friend of Swift, Handel, Hogarth, and even Queen
Charlotte and King George III. How did this remarkable role model
for late blooming manage it? After a disastrous teenage marriage to
a drunken sixty-one-year-old squire, she took control of her own
life, pursuing creative projects, spurning suitors and gaining
friends. At forty-three, she married Jonathan Swift's friend Dr.
Patrick Delany, and lived in Ireland in a true expression of
midlife love. But after twenty-five years and a terrible lawsuit,
her husband died. Sent into a netherland of mourning, Mrs Delany
was rescued by her friend, the fabulously wealthy Duchess of
Portland. The Duchess introduced Delany to the botanical
adventurers of the day and a bonanza of exotic plants from Captain
Cook's voyage, which became the inspiration for her art. Peacock
herself first saw Mrs Delany's work more than twenty years before
she wrote The Paper Garden, but 'like a book you know is too old
for you', she put the thought of the old woman away. She went on to
marry and cherish the happiness of her own midlife, in a parallel
to Mrs. Delany, and by chance rediscovered the mosaicks decades
later. This encounter confronted the poet with her own aging and
gave her-and her readers-a blueprint for late-life flexibility,
creativity, and change.
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Imprint: |
Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
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Country of origin: |
United Kingdom |
Release date: |
May 2012 |
First published: |
May 2012 |
Authors: |
Molly Peacock
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Dimensions: |
203 x 126 x 32mm (L x W x T) |
Format: |
Paperback
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Pages: |
416 |
ISBN-13: |
978-1-4088-2938-7 |
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LSN: |
1-4088-2938-X |
Barcode: |
9781408829387 |
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