Emily Carr A Biography

Name: Emily Carr A Biography
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ISBN: 9780887847561

ISBN-10: 0887847560

ISBN-13: 9780887847561

Edition: 2006

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…

Book details

List price: $24.95
Copyright year: 2006
Publisher: House of Anansi Press
Publication date: 7/1/2006
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 336
Size: 6.50" wide x 9.25" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.232
Language: English



Colour Plates


Abbreviations


Preface to the 1994 Edition


Preface


Acknowledgements


Bibliographical Note



Childhood 1871-1891



San Francisco and Ucluelet 1891-1899



England 1899-1904



Vancouver 1904-1910



France 1910-1911



Vancouver and the North 1911-1913



Chrysalis 1913-1927



Discovery and Its Effects 1927-1929



Spirit and the Land 1929-1933



New Friends at Home 1930-1934



Fruition 1934-1937



Writing and Ira 1937-1942



'Tired very tired' 1942-1945


Epilogue


Notes


Index