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Author: Emily Carr

Westminster Abbey—Architectural Museum

Published: 1946
Written by Emily Carr
Categories: Growing Pains

I went to Westminster to hunt up my Art School. I was to become very familiar with Westminster Abbey because the Art School lay just behind it, being housed in the Architectural Museum in Tufton Street. There stood the richly magnificent Abbey stuffed with monumental history, then a flanking…

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Letters of Introduction

Published: 1946
Written by Emily Carr
Categories: Growing Pains

Turmoil, crowding, too many people, too little air, was hateful to me. I ached with homesickness for my West though I shook myself, called myself fool. Hadn’t I strained every nerve to get here? Why whimper? Aunt Amelia’s mock-genteel PG’s galled me at every turn—high-bridged noses, hard, loud, clear…

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St Paul’s

Published: 1946
Written by Emily Carr
Categories: Growing Pains

Westminster School of Art did not open until September. When I was a little rested, a little steadier, I climbed the curving little iron stairways at the backs of omnibuses and, seated above the people, rode and rode, watching the writhe of humanity below me. I had never seen…

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