Author: Emily Carr

John’s Pudding

Published: 1944
Written by Emily Carr
Categories: The House of All Sorts

John was a young bachelor who for several years occupied my Doll’s Flat. One Christmas his mother sent him a plum pudding from England. It travelled in a white stone-ware basin, a perfect monster of a pudding. “Look at the thing!” John twirled it by its stained tie-down cloth.

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Making Musicians

Published: 1944
Written by Emily Carr
Categories: The House of All Sorts

I hate pianos, tenants’ pianos. They can make a landlady suffer so hideously. Lumbering tanks awaiting the touch (often unskilled) that will make them spill horrible noise, spitting it through their black and white teeth. First the dreadful bump, bump of arrival, cruel gasps of men with backs bent–bruised…

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Furniture

Published: 1944
Written by Emily Carr
Categories: The House of All Sorts

Once I turned a zinc pail down over the head of a widow tenant. She was on the top step of my back stair; I was on the landing above. She would neither pay nor go. The law had told me I must retain certain of her possessions until…

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