Emily Carr A Biography

Name: Emily Carr A Biography
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ISBN: 9780195403145

ISBN-10: 0195403142

ISBN-13: 9780195403145

Edition: 1979

Authors: Maria Tippett

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Emily Carr: A Biography is a remarkable portrait of one of Canada's most celebrated and fascinating artists, a critically renowned painter whose talents would only fully emerge in her late 50s, and a popular and award-winning writer first published at age 70. Emily Carr's life was filled with tension, between the conventions of society and her own originality, between her relationships with others and her often lonely struggle to overcome obstacles, between happiness and despair. Acclaimed writer and historian Maria Tippett has captured the essence of this complex life, weaving a narrative that is at once sympathetic and penetrating. Her masterful examination, which won the Governor…

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List price: $24.00
Copyright year: 1979
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 12/6/1979
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 328
Size: 6.30" wide x 9.84" long
Weight: 1.848
Language: English

Colour Plates	p. vii
Abbreviations	p. viii
Preface to the 1994 Edition	p. ix
Preface	p. xv
Acknowledgements	p. xvii
Bibliographical Note	p. xviii
Childhood 1871-1891	p. 1
San Francisco and Ucluelet 1891-1899	p. 17
England 1899-1904	p. 35
Vancouver 1904-1910	p. 62
France 1910-1911	p. 83
Vancouver and the North 1911-1913	p. 99
Chrysalis 1913-1927	p. 115
Discovery and Its Effects 1927-1929	p. 139
Spirit and the Land 1929-1933	p. 167
New Friends at Home 1930-1934	p. 190
Fruition 1934-1937	p. 213
Writing and Ira 1937-1942	p. 237
'Tired very tired' 1942-1945	p. 263
Epilogue	p. 277
Notes	p. 283
Index	p. 306
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