Author: Emily Carr

Kissing

Published: 1953
Written by Emily Carr
Categories: This and That

She was old teen age, I was young teen age, when we discussed kissing. We both came of very English families who believed in orgies of kissing preceding and following every family event.  “I have heard it stated,” said Elsie, “that it is a very unhealthy, unwholesome habit this…

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Autobiography

Published: 1953
Written by Emily Carr
Categories: Opposite Contraries

I was born in Victoria, BC, in 1871. On leaving high school, I went to San Francisco as a student at the Mark Hopkins School of Art and spent three years there. I returned to Victoria and taught children’s classes and saved up for trip to Europe. I attended…

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Mother

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

I shall call this story “Mother” because it’s all about Father. What Father did and said was the only thing that mattered to Mother. I wish I had known Mother before she was Mrs. Father. I cannot ever imagine her as Mrs. Mother because she died two years before…

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