Author: Emily Carr

Rejected

Published: 1946
Written by Emily Carr
Categories: Growing Pains

I came home from France stronger in body, in thinking, and in work than I had returned from England. My seeing had broadened. I was better equipped both for teaching and study because of my year and a half in France, but still mystified, baffled as to how…

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France

Published: 1946
Written by Emily Carr
Categories: Growing Pains

“Two parrots out in Canada waiting your return! Is it absolutely necessary that you buy another, Millie?” “Those at home are green parrots; this is an African-grey. I have always wanted an African-grey frightfully. Here we are in Liverpool, actually at Cross’s, world-wide animal distributors—it is the…

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Vancouver

Published: 1946
Written by Emily Carr
Categories: Growing Pains

Everything was five and a half years older than when I left home but then so was I—five of the most impressionable years of life past. I was glad some things had changed, sorry others had. I was sorry to say good-bye to my little self—I mean the…

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