Molly Peacock

Paper Garden: Mrs Delany Begins Her Life's Work at 72 (2012)

Really 2.5 stars. ‘Tis a dangerous thing for an author to weave their own stories into a biography. Trying to draw parallels between a 20th century middle class poet in a stable marriage with a 1700s gentrified, twice married woman who comes up with her own genre of art in her 70s. For me, it ree...