The Paper Garden: An Artist Begins Her Life's Work at 72,New

The Paper Garden: An Artist Begins Her Life's Work at 72,New

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Mary Delany was seventytwo 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 cutpaper botanicals (which she called mosaicks) so accurate that botanists still refer to them. Poetbiographer Molly Peacock uses closeups 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 sixtyoneyearold squire, she took control of her own life, pursuing creative projects, spurning suitors, and gaining friends. At fortythree, she married Jonathan Swift's friend Dr. Patrick Delany, and lived in Ireland in a true expression of

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