by Susan Vreeland
I didn't even know who Emily Carr was when I saw her house in Victoria a few years ago. . .
Novelized treatment of the life of Canadian artist Emily Carr. Carr somehow managed to escape both the narrowness of her upbringing and the bigotry of her time (late 1800s-early 1900s) and devoted herself to portraying the indigenous people and landscapes of her native British Columbia.Anyone who ha...
If being completely honest, I wasn't taken or impressed with "The Forest Lover" in the long haul, and much of the reason isn't because that Susan Vreeland wasn't a talented writer in some respects or even that Emily Carr's story isn't remotely interesting to hear. I was put off by the mundane portr...
Charles Williams was rather scathing in his criticism of Hewlett in War in Heaven, but I rather liked this story. OK, it's not high literature, but it's a pleasant "knights-in-armour/damsel in distress" story in the Victorian style.It probably helps that the edition I have is also very nicely illust...
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