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Emily Carr (1) (1871–1945)

Autore di Klee Wyck

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Emily Carr, generally considered Canada's most famous woman painter, was born in Victoria, British Columbia in 1871 and died there in 1945. She was an unusually gifted woman renowned not only for her magnificent paintings but also for her extraordinarily vivid and imaginative prose. She began mostra altro writing late in life when she was forced by failing health to curtail her sketching activities. Her first book, Klee Wyck, was an instant success and won a Governor General's award mostra meno
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Opere di Emily Carr

Klee Wyck (1971) — Autore — 331 copie
The Book of Small (1942) 209 copie
Growing Pains (1946) 183 copie
The House of All Sorts (1944) 123 copie
The Art of Emily Carr (1979) 106 copie
The Heart of a Peacock (1986) 46 copie

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Maiden Voyages: Writings of Women Travelers (1993) — Collaboratore — 192 copie
Favourite Sea Stories from Seaside Al (1996) — Collaboratore — 7 copie

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I loved inhabiting this autobiography. Emily Carr writes in way that makes you want to be with her, like a friend.
Indian Sophie was my friend. We sat long whiles upon the wide church steps, talking little, watching the ferry ply between the city and the North Shore, Indian canoes fishing the waters of the Inlet, papooses playing on the beach. p. 278.

There are extraordinary moments of insightful expression
I felt bitter. My sister was peeved. She neither looked at nor asked about my work during the whole two months of her visit. It was then that I made myself into an envelope into which I could thrust my work deep, lick the flap, seal it from everybody. p. 175

And her deeply felt love of country and its native inhabitants is both poignant and expressed with a wonder that transported me:
No part of living was normal. We lived on fish and fresh air. We sat on things not meant for sitting on, ate out of vessels not meant to hold food, slept on hardness that bruised us; but the lovely, wild vastness did something to it all. I loved every bit of it – no boundaries, no beginning, no end, one continual shove of growing - edge of land meeting edge of water, with just a ribbon of sand between. P.108.

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simonpockley | 2 altre recensioni | Feb 25, 2024 |
Collection of brief sketches about encounters with animals / pets in Emily Carr’s life, selected and published after her death. Like all her published writings these are surprisingly enjoyable and effective. The stories are not saccharine or twee, or aimed at 'pet lovers'; they are sober and engaged studies of how captive animals and people interact, and how such relationships can evolve. A couple of longer stories about native people add a more poignant and reflective dimension.
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sfj2 | Feb 13, 2024 |
Enjoyable short vignettes by BC artist and writer Emily Carr. Yet this is not the equal of some of her other books - notably Klee Wyck, Growing Pains, and the The Book of Small. These stories concern her years running a boarding house and raising dogs as her main income. While all her memoirs are insightful and compelling, her anecdotes here centre on often inconsiderate, sometimes dishonest and occasionally pitiful renters, illustrating how unpleasant those years were for Carr. Her boarding house brought her into close contact with unfamiliar people and relationships, interactions and chores, and she reacted by categorising them and writing rather resentfully about her tenants' behaviours as payback. This broad disdain for people, coupled with Carr's love of (and evident preference for) animals evident in this writing, particularly in the appended stories about raising dogs, leaves a parting impression of a rather sour and disillusioned person. Fortunately her other memoirs - also written in late life - provide a more fully rounded view of her personality and humanness.… (altro)
 
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sfj2 | 3 altre recensioni | Jan 23, 2024 |
Gentle, richly descriptive sketches by the wonderful Emily Carr s of a Victorian childhood (aged between about 4 and late adolescence) in Victoria, British Columbia, as the small naval outpost developed into an outpost of Englishness and the capital of a new province.
 
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sfj2 | 4 altre recensioni | Jan 2, 2024 |

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