One year after the publication of Klee Wyck, The Book of Small appeared. I had wintered in a Nursing Home. Domestic help and fuel problems were difficult owing to war. I was quite eligible for a Nursing Home because I was really ill. There I lay waiting and waiting for…
Klee Wyck made her first appearance a few days before I was seventy. Victoria was astonished at her. Victoria had never approved of my style in painting. When my painting was accepted in the East a few Westerners tolerated it, a smaller number found they actually liked it. Klee Wyck and,…
“Ladies approaching seventy must not expect to work like girls of seventeen—it is unreasonable.” The doctor’s voice was reproving but kindly. “Overdoing has enraged your heart. To begin with we will see what a good long rest in hospital will do.” “How long?” The…
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