Emily Carr’s lifelong search for a language big enough to hold the forests and skies of the West Coast found an important companion in the poetry of Walt Whitman. Whitman’s expansive voice — bodily, earthy, mystical, and democratic — offered Carr a model for speaking of nature as alive…
Emily Carr is often portrayed as the lone wanderer of the West Coast—sketchboard in hand, caravan behind her, dogs and her monkey Woo her side. But her later life, and especially her legacy as a writer, was shaped profoundly by one person: Ira Dilworth, the steady, insightful mentor who…
Billie arrived in Emily Carr’s life around 1906–1907. He was a half-bred Old English Sheepdog, given to her as a gift when he was about three years old. Though Carr initially refused him, Billie made his choice clear—he stayed. She later wrote, “He magnificently ignored my refusal and simply…
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