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The Paper Garden: An Artist Begins Her Life's Work at 72 (2010)

door Molly Peacock

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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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I loved this unique story of a widow woman who spent years cutting out flowers. Sounds strange, but is quite captivating. ( )
  maggie1944 | Aug 5, 2023 |
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  CathyLockhart | Sep 30, 2022 |
I plucked this off the new books shelf of the Rochester Hills Public Library over ten years ago and devoured it. Rereading it now was as much a delight, and I realized that it may have been the beginning of my love for memoir/biography hybrids.

There’s so much here, but really I just love learning about amazing women in the past. Mary Delany created mind-blowing art at 72; really it just gives us all a reason to keep on going just to see what we can do as well. ( )
  spinsterrevival | May 19, 2022 |
I abandoned this book halfway through. Molly Peacock tries to mix Mary Delany's biography with far fetched sexual interpretations of Delany's flower collages and snippets from her own life. Just a plain biography and the description of some of her art work would have sufficed. Peacock's approach interrupts the story unnecessarily. Also the tidbits of Peacock's own life sound self centered and vain, because they don't fit in the story. If Peacock wants to write a memoir she should do that separately.
I would love to read Ruth Hayden's biography of Mary Delany, but it is hard to come by and expensive. ( )
  Marietje.Halbertsma | Jan 9, 2022 |
Delany was an accomplished woman in the late eighteenth century. That she achieved recognition when women were so poorly regarded in the arts is very satisfying, especially as she was so innovative and started her paper collage work at a later age. That is unusual even now and delightfully encouraging.

The biography was approached very differently (in my experience) because Peacock wove some her own memoirs into Delany's life and times. I occasionally found this jarring, a disruptive lack of focus. I never did understand why Peacock's life could be comparable to Mary Delany.

Particularly at odds with women's lives in more recent times, were the passages which described Delany's forced interactions in locked premises with self-centred men attempting to seduce the poor woman. As well, from an artistic premise, how does Peacock's poetry relate to the paper 'mosaicks' that Delany executed? I may have started skimming by then and missed some of the nuances. There were instances where Peacock's surmises about Delany's life were without foundation. Nonetheless, it is physically a beautiful book with attractive illustrations of the botanical artworks. ( )
  SandyAMcPherson | Apr 30, 2020 |
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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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