Growing Pains: an Autobiography by Carr Emily

Growing Pains: an Autobiography by Carr Emily

This autobiography by Emily has been called probably the finest. in a literary sense, ever written in Canada.

Completed just before Emily Carr died in 1945, Growing Pains tells the story of Carr's life, beginning with her girlhood in pioneer Victoria and going on to her training as an artist in San Francisco, England and France. Also here is the frustration she felt at the rejection of her art by Canadians, of the years of despair when she stopped painting. She had to earn a living, and did so by running a small apartment-house, and her painful years of landladying and more joyful times raising dogs for sale, claimed all her time and energy. Then, towards the end of her life, came unexpected vindication and triumph when the Group of Seven accepted her as one of them. Throughout, the book is informed with Carr's passionatate love of and connection with nature.

Carr is a natural storyteller whose writing is vivid and vital, informed by wit, nostalgic charm, an artist's eye for description, a deep feeling for creatures and the foibles of humanity--all the things that made her previous books Klee Wyck and Book of Small so popular and critically acclaimed.

Emily Carr (December 13, 1871 – March 2, 1945) was a well-known Canadian artist and writer who was born in Victoria, British Columbia. She moved back to British Columbia in 1911 after studying painting in the United States, England, and France. The landscapes and First Nations cultures of British Columbia and Alaska had the greatest influence on Carr. She met members of the Group of Seven in the 1920s and was later requested to submit her work for consideration in a Group of Seven exhibition. Five years later, she was dubbed The Mother of Modern Arts.

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ISBN 13	9780772516145
ISBN 10	0772516146
Title	Growing Pains: an Autobiography
Author	Carr Emily
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Stoddart Publishing,Canada
Year published	1946-01-01
Number of pages	281
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