Marilyn Jones | Emily Carr Chronicler

Discipline and Inspiration: How Richard Carr Shaped Emily Carr’s World View

Published: 6 November, 2025
Written by Marilyn Jones

Emily’s father, Richard Carr was born in Beckley, England on July 16, 1818, the youngest of thirteen children. His father Thomas Carr was a tradesman and did not provide any formal schooling for Richard. When he was 19, Richard sailed on a ship to the New World, America. Homesick for his own kind of people, Richard became restless, moving through the Americas, staying no longer then eight weeks in one place. Rumors of a…

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Finding Emily Carr’s “Happiness” at Legacy Art Gallery in Victoria

Published: 4 November, 2025
Written by Marilyn Jones

In the first session of my ten-part series on Emily Carr at Cook Street Activity Centre on October 8, I asked participants to name their favourite Carr painting. Each had a different choice—proof of Carr’s broad and lasting appeal. I shared mine: Happiness (1938–1939). A week later, I received an email from a participant: “Where can I see Emily Carr’s Happiness painting?” That simple question sent me on a fascinating journey—discovering not only Happiness…

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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 in…

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