
Flower Diary
In Which Mary Hiester Reid Paints, Travels, Marries & Opens a Door
Molly Peacock(Author)
ECW Press,Canada
Published on 7. October 2021
Book
Hardback
356 pages
978-1-77041-622-2 (ISBN)
Description
Mary fought for a place as a professional artist without having to live as a tragic heroine. She married George Reid, Canadian muralist, and while their relationship was more equal than most, this was still the Edwardian age. How do you find time to paint when you need to get to the market to buy a chicken for dinner?
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Edition
No Edition
Language
English
Place of publication
Montreal
Canada
Product notice
sewn/stitched
Cloth over boards
With dust jacket
Dimensions
Height: 215 mm
Width: 140 mm
Thickness: 29 mm
Weight
802 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-77041-622-2 (9781770416222)
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Person
Biographer and distinguished poet Molly Peacock is the author of The Paper Garden: Mrs. Delany Begins Her Life’s Work at 72, as well as seven volumes of poetry, including The Analyst: Poems. She is an arts activist and, with a friend, started what became a cultural institution in New York City: Poetry in Motion on the subways and buses. A former Leon Levy Center for Biography Fellow and a dual American/Canadian citizen, Molly divides her time between Toronto and New York City.
Content
- Prologue
- Part One: The Triangles
- Chapter One: Painter and Traveler
- Chapter Two: A Study in Greys
- Chapter Three: The Inglenook in My Studio
- Chapter Four: Silhouette
- Chapter Five: Early Spring
- Part Two: A Calling and a Romance
- Chapter Six: Nightfall
- Chapter Seven: Life Class
- Part Three: Honeymoon
- Chapter Eight: Yellow Gloves
- Chapter Nine: The Sister
- Chapter Ten: Daisies
- Chapter Eleven: Gossip
- Part Four: Paris
- Chapter Twelve: City of Flowers
- Chapter Thirteen: Paris Studio
- Chapter Fourteen: Angry Mary
- Part Five: Onteora and Roses
- Chapter Fifteen: Roses in A Vase
- Chapter Sixteen: Chrysanthemums
- Chapter Seventeen: Modern Madonna
- Chapter Eighteen: Three Roses
- Part Six: Toronto and an Arrangement
- Chapter Nineteen: Portraits
- Chapter Twenty: Evening Star
- Chapter Twenty-One: Chrysanthemums: A Japanese Arrangement
- Part Seven: Spain
- Chapter Twenty-Two: Castles in Spain
- Chapter Twenty- Three: A High Balcony, Madrid
- Chapter Twenty-Four: Sketch Portraits
- Chapter Twenty-Five: A Harmony in Grey and Yellow
- Part Eight: Arts and Crafts
- Chapter Twenty-Six: Moonrise
- Chapter Twenty-Seven: Two Portraits of Mrs. Reid
- Chapter Twenty-Eight: Lunch, Friendship and Menopause
- Chapter Twenty-Nine: Two Marys, a Miniature
- Chapter Thirty Nasturtiums, a Restoration
- Part Nine: Wychwood, Portrait of the Artist as a Tree
- Chapter Thirty-One: Morning Sunshine
- Chapter Thirty-Two: Past and Present Still Life
- Chapter Thirty-Three: Elm Tree Shadows
- Timeline
- Bibliography
- Notes
- Index
- Acknowledgements