The forest lover / Susan Vreeland.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Vreeland, Susan.

Contributor:

Caroline F. Schimmel Collection of Women in the American Wilderness (University of Pennsylvania)

Schimmel, Caroline F., donor, associated name.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Carr, Emily, 1871-1945--Fiction.

Carr, Emily.

Carr, Emily, 1871-1945.

Women--British Columbia--Fiction.

Women.

Landscape painters--Fiction.

Landscape painters.

Nuu-chah-nulth Indians.

British Columbia--Fiction.

British Columbia.

Women painters--Fiction.

Women painters.

Nuu-chah-nulth Indians--Fiction.

Boardinghouses--Fiction.

Boardinghouses.

Genre:

Fiction.

Biographical fiction.

Penn Provenance:

Schimmel, Caroline F. (donor) (Schimmel Collection copy)

Vreeland, Susan (autograph) (Schimmel Collection copy)

Physical Description:

xii, 333 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

New York : Viking, 2004.

Summary:

Since the Publication of Her First Novel, the New York Times bestselling Girl in Hyacinth Blue, and its sumptuous follow-up, The Passion of Artemisia, Susan Vreeland has dazzled fans all over the globe, with her books' having been translated into nearly twenty different languages. In The Forest Lover, she transports readers yet again to another gorgeous time and place -- the lush, untamed British Columbian Coast at the turn of the twentieth century -- where she begins the story of the legendary painter, naturalist, and icon Emily Carr. From an early age, it is clear that Emily is not like her sisters -- not satisfied with the pious and rigid world she is expected to fit into. Her creative talent and fiercely independent spirit are far too strong to be suppressed by her father's wishes that she marry and settle down into polite white Vancouver society. Drawn to the danger and beauty of a vast wilderness and its people, Emily defies her family's better judgment, spurns suitors, and establishes herself as an art teacher, venturing off whenever possible to the wild coast of British Columbia. There she begins to paint the native tribal villages in an effort to portray the rich culture of these people, their canoes, totems, and artfully decorated communal houses before they are destroyed forever.

In Vreeland's deeply imagined novel, Carr's life becomes a fascinating and engaging meditation on the search for self and self-acceptance. Vreeland tells it with gusto and suspense, rendering vivid portraits of Carr and the unconventional people to whom she is inevitably drawn: Sophie, a native basket maker; Harold, the son of missionaries who embraces indigenous cultures; Fanny, a New Zealand artist who spends the summer with Carr painting in the French countryside; and Claude, the French fur trader who steals her heart. From illegal potlatches in Mimkwamlis to prewar Paris, where her art was exhibited in the famed Salon d'Automne, to her emergence as a great artist compared with Georgia O'Keeffe and Frida Kahlo, Carr's journey to prove her ability as an artist to herself and the world around her is a vibrant, inspiring pleasure.

Contents:

1 Salmonberry 3

2 Cedar 9

3 Lady Fern 15

4 Douglas-fir 24

5 Eagle 29

6 Muskrat 37

7 Fox 45

8 Spruce 52

9 Mew Gull 61

10 Killer Whale 68

11 Horsetail 79

12 Bear 84

13 Raven 88

14 Cedar 97

15 Sparrow 109

16 Sisters 121

17 Gibb 127

18 Frances 132

19 Chestnut 142

20 Huckleberry 149

21 Loon 160

22 Raven 167

23 Willow 179

24 Mosquito 188

25 Mink 196

26 Moss 205

27 Salal 212

28 Eagle 227

29 Grass 233

30 Camas 240

31 Dzunukwa 247

32 Maple 251

33 Arbutus 255

34 Salmon 259

35 Woo 265

36 Cedar 271

37 Frog 278

38 Aspen 284

39 Raven 295

40 Sanderling 298

41 Dogwood 305

42 Hemlock 310

43 Wolf 314

44 Alder 322.

Notes:

Map on lining papers.

Local Notes:

Schimmel Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2014 by Caroline F. Schimmel.

Schimmel Collection copy signed by the author on 9 February 2004 on leaf preceding half-title leaf.

Schimmel Collection copy: dust jacket retained.

ISBN:

0670032670

OCLC:

52877694