Life Writing and Biographical Plays: Emily Carr

Essential Others and Spontaneous Recovery in the Life and Work of Emily Carr: Implications for Understanding Remission of Illness and Resilience

Artist Emily Carr 1A majority of paintings by Emily Carr are in the permanent collection of the Vancouver Art Gallery. Others may be viewed in the National Gallery of Ontario and the British Columbia Archives in Victoria, BC. They are also available as photographed reproductions on the web at vancouverartgallery.bc.ca. 1 (1871-1945) has attained iconic status in Canada and throughout the world ...

After Great Pain: The Inner Life of Emily Dickinson.

Emily Dickinson

Biography Emily Elizabeth Dickinson was born in Amherst, Massachusetts, on December 10, 1830, the elder daughter of lawyer Edward Dickinson and Emily Norcross Dickinson. Dickinson was the second of three children, a year younger than her brother, William, and three years older than her sister, Lavinia. She was born in a large house built by her grandfather, Samuel Fowler Dickinson; except for a...

Emily Bowerman

The fiction of J.R.R. Tolkien has captivated readers for the past five decades, perhaps because it portrays a world so drastically different from our own. Middle-earth is indeed informed by vestiges of an ancient tradition, preserved in the mythologies of different cultures. One very good example of this is Tolkien‟s theory of courage, which he gleaned from Old Norse myth and discussed in his l...

A life in science, editing, and writing.

When I was six years old, I happened to notice a small pink book on the lower shelf of one of the family’s bookshelves. I don’t remember the title, and I don’t recall what made me pull it off the shelf and thumb through its pages (a child’s curiosity, I suppose), but in any event it proved to be my first introduction to biology. Paging through that book, I learned about the earliest stages of h...