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Hundreds and Thousands: The Journals of Emily Carr

Hundreds and Thousands: The Journals of Emily Carr
By Emily Carr

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Emily Carr’s journals from 1927 to 1941 portray the happy, productive period when she was able to resume painting after dismal years of raising dogs and renting out rooms to pay the bills. These revealing entries convey her passionate connection with nature, her struggle to find her voice as a writer, and her vision and philosophy as a painter.

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  • Amazon Sales Rank: #779057 in Books
  • Published on: 2007-04-10
  • Original language: English
  • Number of items: 1
  • Binding: Paperback
  • 448 pages

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a very revealing and enjoyable read5
Hundreds and Thousands are the journals of Emily Carr, spanning her life from 1927 to 1941. They offer great insight into her artistic development, opening with her visit to Toronto to meet with The Group of Seven, for the first time.
Emily Carr is first and foremost known for her paintings, but many feel that her writing talent equaled or maybe surpassed her canvas art.
In "Hundreds and Thousands" her simple sentence about her impressions while camping - The sun shouts, "Right about face," and every little dandelion looks him plumb in the eye. - reveals her simplistic descriptive wit.
Another example that tickled me - The world comes into my room, kicks the silence about, smashes it to smithereens, and builds little cobweb bridges so your thoughts can cross to Germany and Russia, to France - the circumstance was her adjusting to her new radio.