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Author : George Paston
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Mrs. Delany (Mary Granville) written by George Paston and published by . This book was released on 1900 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Molly Peacock
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1608195236
Total Pages : 416 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (81 download)
Download or read book The Paper Garden written by Molly Peacock and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2011-04-12 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Traces the life and accomplishments of septuagenarian artist Mary Delany, describing her invention of the art of collage late in life after two heart-breaking marriages, in an account that also evaluates the roles of her relationships with such figures as Jonathan Swift, the Duchess of Portland and King George III. 35,000 first printing.
Author : Clarissa Campbell Orr
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300161131
Total Pages : 449 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (1 download)
Download or read book Mrs Delany written by Clarissa Campbell Orr and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2019-01-01 with total page 449 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first comprehensive biography of Mary Granville Delany - the artist and court insider whose flower collages, in particular, continue to inspire widespread admiration Mrs Delany is best remembered for her captivating paper collages of flowers, but her artistic flourishing came late in life. This nuanced, deeply researched biography pulls back the lens to place Delany's art in the broader context of her family life, relationships with royalty, and her endeavor to live as an independent woman. Clarissa Campbell Orr, a noted authority on the eighteenth century court, charts Mary Delany's development from a young woman at the heart of elite circles to beloved godmother and celebrated collagist. Orr traces the varied connections Mary Delany fostered throughout her life and which influenced her intellectual and artistic development: she was friends with prominent figures such as Methodist leader, John Wesley, composer G. F. Handel, the writer Jonathan Swift, and England's leading patron of science, Margaret Bentinck, Duchess of Portland. Mrs Delany reveals its subject to be far more than a widow befriended by George III and Queen Charlotte; she is, instead, restored to her proper place in the era's aristocratic society -and as a ground-breaking artist.
Author : Yale Center for British Art
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (318 download)
Download or read book Mrs. Delany & Her Circle written by Yale Center for British Art and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2009 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At the age of seventy-two, Mary Delany, n�e Mary Granville (1700-1788), embarked upon a series of nearly a thousand botanical collages, or "paper mosaics,” which would prove to be the crowning achievement of her rich creative life. These delicate hand-cut floral designs, made by a method of Mrs. Delany’s own invention, vie with the finest botanical works of her time. More than two centuries later her extraordinary work continues to inspire. Although best known for these collages, Mrs. Delany was also an amateur artist, woman of fashion, and commentator on life and society in 18th-century England and Ireland. Her prolific craft activities not only served to cement personal bonds of friendship, but also allowed her to negotiate the interconnecting artistic, aristocratic, and scientific networks that surrounded her. This ambitious and groundbreaking book, the first to survey the full range of Mrs. Delany’s creative endeavors, reveals the complexity of her engagement with natural science, fashion, and design.
Author : Delany
Publisher : Palala Press
ISBN 13 : 9781377815275
Total Pages : 662 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (152 download)
Download or read book The Autobiography and Correspondence of Mary Granville, Mrs. Delany written by Delany and published by Palala Press. This book was released on 2018-02-17 with total page 662 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Author : Molly Peacock
Publisher : Bloomsbury UK
ISBN 13 : 9781408821015
Total Pages : 416 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (21 download)
Download or read book The Paper Garden written by Molly Peacock and published by Bloomsbury UK. This book was released on 2011-07-01 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Author : Molly Peacock
Publisher : ECW Press
ISBN 13 : 1773058398
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (73 download)
Download or read book Flower Diary written by Molly Peacock and published by ECW Press. This book was released on 2021-09-14 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Graceful yet precise, poetic yet deeply rooted in research, this exploration of an overlooked painter is gorgeous — a joy to read. Molly Peacock’s insights and empathy with her subject bring to life both Mary Hiester Reid and her luscious flower paintings.” — Charlotte Gray, author of The Massey Murder Molly Peacock uncovers the history of neglected painter Mary Hiester Reid, a trailblazing artist who refused to choose between marriage and a career. Born into a patrician American family in the middle of the nineteenth century, Mary Hiester Reid was determined to be a painter and left behind women’s design schools to enter the art world of men. After she married fellow artist George Reid, she returned with him to his home country of Canada. There she set about creating over 300 stunning still life and landscape paintings, inhabiting a rich, if sometimes difficult, marriage, coping with a younger rival, exhibiting internationally, and becoming well-reviewed. She studied in Paris, traveled in Spain, and divided her time between Canada and the United States where she lived among America’s Arts and Crafts movement titans. She left slender written records; rather, her art became her diary and Flower Diary unfolds with an artwork for each episode of her life. In this sumptuous and precisely researched biography, celebrated poet and biographer Molly Peacock brings Mary Hiester Reid, foremother of painters such as Georgia O’Keefe, out of the shadows, revealing a fascinating, complex woman who insisted on her right to live as a married artist, not as a tragic heroine. Peacock uses her poet’s skill to create a structurally inventive portrait of this extraordinary woman whom modernism almost swept aside, weaving threads of her own marriage with Hiester Reid’s, following the history of empathy and examining how women manage the demands of creativity and domesticity, coping with relationships, stoves, and steamships, too. How do you make room for art when you must go to the market to buy a chicken for dinner? Hiester Reid had her answers, as Peacock gloriously discovers.
Author : Derek Attridge
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 110749494X
Total Pages : 409 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (74 download)
Download or read book The Cambridge Companion to James Joyce written by Derek Attridge and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2004-06-17 with total page 409 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This second edition of The Cambridge Companion to Joyce contains several revised essays, reflecting increasing emphasis on Joyce's politics, a fresh sense of the importance of his engagement with Ireland, and the changes wrought by gender studies on criticism of his work. This Companion gathers an international team of leading scholars who shed light on Joyce's work and life. The contributions are informative, stimulating and full of rich and accessible insights which will provoke thought and discussion in and out of the classroom. The Companion's reading lists and extended bibliography offer readers the necessary tools for further informed exploration of Joyce studies. This volume is designed primarily as a students' reference work (although it is organised so that it can also be read from cover to cover), and will deepen and extend the enjoyment and understanding of Joyce for the new reader.
Author : E. Owens Blackburne
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN 13 : 3385553571
Total Pages : 426 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (855 download)
Download or read book Illustrious Irishwomen. Being Memoirs of Some of the Most Noted Irishwomen from the Earliest Ages to the Present Century written by E. Owens Blackburne and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2024-08-03 with total page 426 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of the original, first published in 1877.
Author : Molly Peacock
Publisher : McClelland & Stewart
ISBN 13 : 0771072252
Total Pages : 317 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (71 download)
Download or read book Paradise, Piece by Piece written by Molly Peacock and published by McClelland & Stewart. This book was released on 2016-07-05 with total page 317 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: You can ask that a book tell you a compelling story, that it dazzle you with vivid writing, that its emotional content be pure and stirring, that the issues it tackles be timely, relevant, and put forth with candour and a tonic dose of humour. Paradise, Piece by Piece is such a book. Molly Peacock is an award-winning writer, and Paradise, Piece by Piece describes the coming of age of a poet and the flowering of her art. It is a self-portrait that speaks to the most intimate questions a woman can ask of herself and answers them with courageous introspection. It is the story of a child who had to grow up too soon; of the complicated web of relationships in which she, like all of us, defines herself – loyal friends, quirky relations, and tempestuous lovers; of the lifelong labour of self-determination, and finding ultimate fulfilment. Peacock’s language is emotionally charged, full of wit and dead-on accuracy. Her skill with narrative and character, her ability to write a vibrant scene, make her memoir as compelling as good fiction. Paradise, Piece by Piece is a virtuoso performance.
Author : Ruth Hayden
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (13 download)
Download or read book Mrs. Delany, Her Life and Her Flowers written by Ruth Hayden and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Mrs. Delany (Mary)
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 668 pages
Book Rating : 4.R/5 (3 download)
Download or read book The Autobiography and Correspondence of Mary Granville, Mrs. Delany written by Mrs. Delany (Mary) and published by . This book was released on 1861 with total page 668 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Mrs. Delany (Mary)
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 820 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Autobiography and Correspondence of Mary Granville, Mrs. Delany written by Mrs. Delany (Mary) and published by . This book was released on 1862 with total page 820 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : GEORGE. PASTON
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781033239605
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (396 download)
Download or read book MRS. DELANY (MARY GRANVILLE) written by GEORGE. PASTON and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Devoney Looser
Publisher : JHU Press
ISBN 13 : 0801887054
Total Pages : 253 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (18 download)
Download or read book Women Writers and Old Age in Great Britain, 1750-1850 written by Devoney Looser and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2008-08-01 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This groundbreaking study explores the later lives and late-life writings of more than two dozen British women authors active during the long eighteenth century. Drawing on biographical materials, literary texts, and reception histories, Devoney Looser finds that far from fading into moribund old age, female literary greats such as Anna Letitia Barbauld, Frances Burney, Maria Edgeworth, Catharine Macaulay, Hester Lynch Piozzi, and Jane Porter toiled for decades after they achieved acclaim -- despite seemingly concerted attempts by literary gatekeepers to marginalize their later contributions. Though these remarkable women wrote and published well into old age, Looser sees in their late careers the necessity of choosing among several different paths. These included receding into the background as authors of "classics," adapting to grandmotherly standards of behavior, attempting to reshape masculinized conceptions of aged wisdom, or trying to create entirely new categories for older women writers. In assessing how these writers affected and were affected by the culture in which they lived, and in examining their varied reactions to the prospect of aging, Looser constructs careful portraits of each of her Subjects and explains why many turned toward retrospection in their later works. In illuminating the powerful and often poorly recognized legacy of the British women writers who spurred a marketplace revolution in their earlier years only to find unanticipated barriers to acceptance in later life, Looser opens up new scholarly territory in the burgeoning field of feminist age studies.
Author : George Paston
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 360 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)
Download or read book Mrs. Delany (Mary Granville) written by George Paston and published by . This book was released on 1900 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Mary Delany
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108038395
Total Pages : 627 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (8 download)
Download or read book Autobiography and Correspondence of Mary Granville, Mrs Delany written by Mary Delany and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2011-11-08 with total page 627 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The extensive and fascinating correspondence of Mary Delany (1700-88) who was famed for her botanical 'paper mosaics'.
