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Biography & Autobiography Artists, Architects, Photographers

Emily Carr

Rebel Artist

by (author) Kate Braid

Publisher
Dundurn Press
Initial publish date
Jan 2001
Category
Artists, Architects, Photographers, Historical, Modern (late 19th Century to 1945)
  • Paperback / softback

    ISBN
    9780968360163
    Publish Date
    Jan 2001
    List Price
    $15.95
  • eBook

    ISBN
    9781770706378
    Publish Date
    Jan 2001
    List Price
    $7.99

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As a child she was "contrary,"as a young woman she defied convention to choose art over marriage, and as a middle-aged woman she was considered a full-blown eccentric. Listening to her own inner voice, Emily Carr created an art unique to British Columbia.

About the author

Kate Braid worked as a receptionist, secretary, teacher’s aide, lumber piler, construction labourer, apprentice and journey-carpenter before finally “settling down”? as a teacher. She has taught construction and creative writing, the latter in workshops and also at SFU, UBC and for ten years at Vancouver Island University (previously Malaspina University-College). She is the author of A Well-Mannered Storm: The Glenn Gould Poems, Covering Rough Ground, To This Cedar Fountain and Inward to the Bones: Georgia O’Keeffe’s Journey with Emily Carr. In 2005 she co-edited, with Sandy Shreve, In Fine Form: The Canadian Book of Form Poetry. Braid’s second book of poems about her carpentry experiences, Turning Left to the Ladies, was published by Palimpsest Press. She lives in Burnaby, BC, with her partner.

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