Author: Emily Carr

Drawing & Insubordination

Published: 1946
Written by Emily Carr
Categories: Growing Pains

I wanted to draw a dog. I sat beside Carlow’s kennel and stared at him for a long time. Then I took a charred stick from the grate, split open a large brown-paper sack and drew a dog on the sack. My married sister who had taken…

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Mother

Published: 1946
Written by Emily Carr
Categories: Growing Pains

To show Mother I must picture Father, because Mother was Father’s reflection—smooth, liquid reflecting of definite, steel-cold reality. Our childhood was ruled by Father’s unbendable iron will, the obeying of which would have been intolerable but for Mother’s patient polishing of its dull metal so that it…

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Baptism

Published: 1946
Written by Emily Carr
Categories: Growing Pains

My baptism is an unpleasant memory. I was a little over four years of age. My brother was an infant. We were done together, and in our own home. Dr. Reid, a Presbyterian parson, baptized us. He was dining at our house. We were playing in the…

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