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Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
In The Paper Garden, celebrated poet Molly Peacock explores the remarkable life of 18th-century British gentlewoman-turned-artist Mary Delany. In the 1770s, at the age of 72, the twice-widowed and nearly broke Delany turned her interest in botany into beautiful paper "mosaick" flowers still revered today.
Publisher
PBS Distribution
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"Description: Over 800 paintings of flora from around the world decorate the walls of the Marianne North Gallery of London's Kew Royal Botanical Gardens, each one a testament to the extraordinary life of the woman who painted them." --
Author
Publisher
W. W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
Offers an approach to the lives and works of Keats, Wordsworth, Lamb, and the painter Benjamin Robert Haydon through the exemplary events of a single evening spent in thoughtful discussion and, later, raucous conversation.
