TO the solid citizens of Victoria, B.C., Emily Carr was a painful puzzle. Born into a conservative Victoria family (in 1871) she was dreamy and snappish from the start.
Fleeing to London to study art, she came back with an incomprehensible bad habit—smoking cigarettes. Trailing ; thin plume of smoke, Emily escaped again, this time to Paris. In Paris she felt "like a pine tree in a pot," but learned to paint in what she called "the despised, adorable, joyous, modern way."
When Emily Carr's money ran out, she returned to teach art in Victoria. But no one wanted to learn from...
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