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Author: Emily Carr

Sisters Coming – Sisters Going

Published: 1946
Written by Emily Carr
Categories: Growing Pains

Having once gone to my guardian for advice, I continued to do so. The ice was broken—I wrote him acknowledging my check each month and telling him my little news, dull nothings, but he troubled to comment on them. He was a busy man to be bothered writing the…

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Colour Sense

Published: 1946
Written by Emily Carr
Categories: Growing Pains

I had advanced from the drawing of casts and was now painting “still life” under the ogling eye of the French Professor. I was afraid of him, not of his harsh criticisms but of his ogle-eyes, jet black pupils rolling in huge whites, like shoe buttons touring round soup-plates.

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Gladness

Published: 1946
Written by Emily Carr
Categories: Growing Pains

In Geary Street Square, close to the Lyndhurst, was a Church of England with so high a ritual that our Evangelical Bishop would have called it Popish. On Easter morning I went into the Geary Street Square. The church-bell was calling and I entered the church and sat down…

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