Author: Emily Carr

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…

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The Roarats

Published: 1946
Written by Emily Carr
Categories: Growing Pains

Mrs. Piddington twiddled the envelope. Her eyes upon my face warned me, “Don’t forget I am your boss!” “You are to call on the Roarats at once,” she said, and shook my sister’s letter in my face. “I don’t intend to call upon the Roarats, I…

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Evil

Published: 1946
Written by Emily Carr
Categories: Growing Pains

I was too busy at the Art School to pay much heed to Lyndhurst and Piddington affairs. Mrs. Piddington was watching me closely. Because she was English she called me “my dear” which did not in the least mean that I was dear to her nor she to…

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