On October 1935, Emily Carr stood before the students and faculty at Victoria’s Normal School, delivering her speech “Something Plus in a Work of Art.” She confessed in her journal that she had spent a week preparing and, despite feeling steady rather than nervous, she felt the audience of “young things” received her warmly—far more enthusiastically than the trio of “set‑stiff” professors. Read more: Emily Carr & Something Plus in…
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