In 1772, when Mary Granville Pendarves Delany was 72, she discovered a talent for creating arresting floral images with paper 鈥 and in the process invented the field of collage. Her unusual life story 鈥 from an unhappy teenage marriage to a drunken aristocrat to late-in-life success as an artist 鈥 is a true story that is both inspiring and intriguing.