The creative partnership of acclaimed writer and academic Mary M. Talbot
and graphic-novel pioneer Bryan Talbot has produced some of the most
challenging and entertaining graphic novels in recent memory, including
2012's Costa Award medalist Dotter of Her Father's Eyes. The Red
Virgin and the Vision of Utopia explores the life of revolutionary
French feminist Louise Michel, a visionary teacher, poet, and radical
who took up arms against a reactionary regime that executed thousands.
Even deportation to a distant penal colony could not stop Michel from
taking up the cause of the indigenous population against French colonial
oppression.