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|title=Dotter of Her Father's Eyes

|author=Mary M Talbot and Bryan Talbot

|publisher=Jonathan Cape

|date=February 2012

|summary=A quite charming surprise as the lives of two females we know little of are intertwined with - as usual - excellent artwork.

}}

It's a biography brilliant at leaving 'what ifs' hanging in the air. Would Lucia have been fully successful growing up just a generation or two later? How much different would Mary have turned out if given a spanking less now and again? Beyond such speculation the facts as writ (and drawn) are excellent. Mary's weeny footnotes about Bryan's artwork show the pair had fun collaborating, and despite this being a small tale of a famous daughter, and a nostalgic look at someone you probably know nothing of, together they're excellent - and I mean both the pair of creators and also the pair of stories.

Being rather male-oriented by tradition, the graphic novel form does not touch on female lives as regularly as it should - [[Dragonslippers: This is What an Abusive Relationship Looks Like by Rosalind Penfold]] does so in a nightmarishly predictable way, as does [[Tyranny by Lesley Fairfield]].