Marilyn Jones | Emily Carr Chronicler

Emily Carr’s Award Winning Short Story “The Hully Up Paper”

Published: 3 November, 2025
Written by Marilyn Jones

Emily Carr wrote sporadically throughout her life, but in 1928 she drove herself relentlessly in both painting and writing. But a heart attack in 1937 and her doctor’s orders forced her to curtail her painting. She began to focus more on her writing. By then, she had take two short stories writing courses. The first by correspondence from the Palmer Institute in Los Angeles in 1926 and the second at Victoria Summer School…

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Emily Carr’s Mysterious Oak Bay Cottage

Published: 1 November, 2025
Written by Marilyn Jones

In 1913, Emily Carr paid $900 for a plot of land on Victoria Avenue in Oak Bay, according to a story told by Edythe Hembroff in her biography Emily Carr: Untold Story (1978), On the plot of land, she had built a 12 by 20 foot cabin the following year, “nail by nail” at a cost of $150 with the help of “one old carpenter.”. According to Eve Lazarus, author of Sensational Victoria, assessment…

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The Rise and Fall of Emily Carr’s “People’s Gallery”

Published: 30 October, 2025
Written by Marilyn Jones

Emily Carr’s People’s Gallery was a deeply personal and innovative initiative she launched in late 1932, in the middle of the Great Depression. At the time, she was living in her boarding house, the House of All Sorts in Victoria which she operated as a sole source of income. She had given up her annual pottery sales and was letting her paintings go for $5 or $10 a piece. She had almost stopped…

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