The life of Emily Carr is often told through her artistic journeys into the forests and villages of the Pacific Northwest, yet some of her most formative influences were rooted much closer to home—in the intimate, everyday world of childhood neighbours. Among the most significant of these…
In the early decades of the 20th century, Victoria was home to two extraordinary women whose lives and work would leave enduring marks on Canadian society: Emily Carr (1871–1945), the pioneering painter and writer, and Nellie McClung (1873–1951), the social reformer, suffragist, and politician. Though they shared a city and era, their…
Two women, born within two years of one another at opposite ends of the British Empire, spent their lives wrestling paint into meaning. Frances Mary Hodgkins, born in New Zealand in 1869, and Emily Carr, born in Victoria in 1871, shared restless, independent spirits and an uncompromising commitment…
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