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Dear Nan

Letters of Emily Carr, Nan Cheney, and Humphrey Toms

edited by Doreen Walker

Publisher
UBC Press
Initial publish date
Nov 2011
Category
Canadian, Letters
  • eBook

    ISBN
    9780774842983
    Publish Date
    Nov 2011
    List Price
    $99.00
  • Paperback / softback

    ISBN
    9780774803908
    Publish Date
    Jan 1990
    List Price
    $34.95
  • Hardback

    ISBN
    9780774803489
    Publish Date
    Jan 1990
    List Price
    $95.00

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Description

This collection includes 150 letters Emily Carr wrote to her friends Nan Cheney and Humphrey Toms, and 100 other letters relating mainly to Emily Carr. The letters date from 1930 to 1945, the most prolific period in Carr’s career as both painter and writer. In them she writes in colourful detail about her everyday activities, and discusses her painting – “the biggest thing in my life.” There are outbursts of exasperation and anger as well as many indications of her caring, her warmth, her wisdom and her wit, and of her impatience with critics and poseurs, and they give insights into her various relationships with, among others, Lawren Harris, Ira Dilworth, Jack Shadbolt, Garnett Sedgewick, Dorothy Livesay, A.Y. Jackson, and Arthur Lismer.

About the author

Contributor Notes

Doreen Walker  is a senior instructor emerita of the Department of Fine Arts at the University of British Columbia.

Editorial Reviews

The collection is an important one; it gives us a taste of earthy, domestic Emily Carr, a sense of her everyday speech and her wonderful bad attitude to grammar and spelling which Walker had the good sense to leave.

The Globe and Mail