{"product_id":"wild-flowers","title":"Wild Flowers","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eWild Flowers\u003c\/em\u003e is illustrated with beautiful watercolours of wild plants by Emily Henrietta Woods, one of Carr's childhood drawing teachers in Victoria. The originals of Carr’s manuscript and Woods’ botanical illustrations reside in collections of the BC Archives; neither have been published until now.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn a brief Foreword and Afterword, archivist and historian Kathryn Bridge gives context to \u003cem\u003eWild Flowers\u003c\/em\u003e within the body of Carr's previously published writings. “Woods’ paintings fit so well with Carr’s text,\" writes Bridge in the Foreword. \"It’s serendipity that Woods taught Carr and that we have her art and Carr’s manuscript in the Archives’ collection, and that neither have been published before now.”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eEmily Carr (1871–1945) is one of Canada’s best-known painters and an award-winning author of several books. She exhibited artistic talent from an early age and attended art school in Victoria. One of her childhood teachers was Emily H. Woods, the illustrator of this book.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCarr did not begin writing in earnest until later in life. As Kathryn Bridge explains in the foreword to this book, \"Emily Carr composed the 21 vignettes that make up \u003cem\u003eWild Flowers\u003c\/em\u003e during the autumn and winter of 1940-41, when she was mostly housebound, recuperating from a stroke suffered the previous June. She had also endured an angina attack in 1937 and a more serious heart attack in 1939. While spending many weeks in hospital recovering from these earlier ailments, she turned to writing, and wrote most of what would later be her first book, \u003cem\u003eKlee Wyck\u003c\/em\u003e, drafts for her autobiography, and other stories. Published in 1941,\u003cem\u003e Klee Wyck\u003c\/em\u003e won a Governor General's literary award.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAlso by Emily Carr:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003ca title=\"Sister and I from Victoria to London\" href=\"http:\/\/royalbcmuseum.bc.ca\/shop\/product\/sister-and-i-from-victoria-to-london\/\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eSister and I\u003c\/em\u003e from Victoria to London\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003ca title=\"Studio Billie’s Calendar: A Perpetual Calendar\" href=\"http:\/\/royalbcmuseum.bc.ca\/shop\/product\/studio-billies-calendar\/\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eStudio Billie's Calendar\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eAbout the Illustrator\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eEmily Henrietta Woods (1852-1916) was born in Ireland and moved with her family to Victoria at age 13. She became a talented artist and taught drawing at Angela College, an Anglican girls school, and at Mrs Cridge's School for Girls. Woods made it her life's work to paint more than 200 life-size, botanically accurate watercolours of wildflowers, each identified with their common and scientific names - some of these are featured in this book. She also composed landscapes in pencil and watercolours.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Royal Museum Shop","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44858003980502,"sku":"26666","price":24.95,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0678\/4368\/6614\/files\/Wild-Flowers-col-348x5001.jpg?v=1704951811","url":"https:\/\/shop.rbcm.ca\/products\/wild-flowers","provider":"Royal Museum Shop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}