Author: Emily Carr

Condemned

Published: 1953
Written by Emily Carr
Categories: Pause

The Harley Street Specialist pretended that he had not noticed me lay his fee in gold upon his desk. He hoisted his well-satisfied self onto the toes of his shiny patent-leathers, and forcefully repeated, “Madam, the voyage to Canada is for the present entirely out of the question. Best…

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Author’s Note

Published: 1953
Written by Emily Carr
Categories: Pause

The Fat Girl and Her FailureThe fat girl came from the far west where the forests are magnificent and solemn but no singing birds are there. The fat girl found birds in the early days of her sojourn in England. She heard a thrush sing. It was a poor…

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Exit

Published: 1953
Written by Emily Carr
Categories: Heart of a Peacock

Ginger Pop, Koko, Jane, Adolphus filled out their lives, died, and became memories. Woo was fourteen years when I sold my apartment house and moved into a cottage. The uprooting did not bother her. Wherever I was, there Woo was content. She had been in and out of camp…

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