Marilyn Jones, Author at Emily Carr Chronicles

Published: 28 August, 2025

Written by Marilyn Jones

Categories: her (auto) biography

Art historian Stephanie Kirkwood Walker, in her insightful book This Woman in Particular: Concepts for the Biographical Image of Emily Carr (1996, Wilfred University Press), argues that the composite image of Carr that emerges—across biographies, plays, films, poems, and her own words—is a “cultural artefact.” It is necessarily fragmented, constantly evolving,…

Published: 4 December, 2007

Written by Marilyn Jones

Categories: This and That

The electric bulb over our bed was still swaying when I opened my eyes. It was evident someone had just switched it on. By the clock it was early morning. By the hole in the sky which was the open dormer window it was little beyond the murk…

Published: 4 December, 2007

Written by Marilyn Jones

Categories: This and That

Topsy Tiddles was not anybody. She was not wrought in flesh and blood, but existed as a boat exists in fog… there, but hidden. It came with fearful ardent rushing, this idea of Small’s that she must say things, but she did not know how to. I don’t…

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