Obtain Mrs Delany: A Life Penned By Clarissa Campbell Orr Version

the book seemed to be an account of the 'important' people, and relatives acquainted with Mrs Delaney, I found more information about her and her creative works in the Hayden book,
the Flora Delanica not treated as of interest until page!
Ploughed through all those 'personages' just to try and find out more about Mrs Delaney but in spite of the fact that she apparently was a very busy letter writer very little information about her, apart from her deeply religious beliefs, was revealed Mary Delany is a remarkable person and feminist of her time.
Forced into an financially beneficial marriage by her family, widowed at a young age, found true love in middle age and a close friend to the king and queen of Britain.


In the midst of it all she was friends with Swift, Handel, Wesley brothers and too many dukes and earls to count, She was a beloved aunt, great aunt, godmother to many notables of the age,



Her art career started late in life, starting with a collections of shells and eventually her famous mosaics, Im not sure Delany saw anything extraordinary in her own life, but that is what makes it so remarkable, She was a spectator and force among a small group of very influential people during an extraordinary time of change, . including the American Revolution. 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 Delanys 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 Delanys 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 Englands 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 eras aristocratic society and as a groundbreaking artist.
Clarissa Campbell Orr is the author of, or editor and contributor to, numerous essays and anthologies, including Queenship in Europeand Queenship in Britain, She was a Visiting Research Fellow at St Marys University Twickenham fromtoafter a long career at Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge, Clarissa Campbell Orr is the author of, or editor and contributor to, numerous essays and anthologies, including Queenship in Europeand Queenship in Britain, She was a Visiting Research Fellow at St Mary's University Twickenham fromtoafter a long career at Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge, sitelink.