Author: Emily Carr

Unmarried

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

The most awkward situation for the inexperienced young landlady was how to deal with “unweds.” Every apartment house gets them. They are often undiscernible, even to the experienced. One learns in time to catch on to little indications…. The supposed husband makes all arrangements, the supposed wife…

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Mrs. Pillcrest’s Poems

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

Sometimes a word or two in Pillcrest’s poems jingled. More occasionally a couple of words made sense. They flowed from her lips in a sing-song gurgle, spinning like pennies, and slapping down dead. Mrs. Pillcrest was a small, spare woman with opaque blue eyes. While the poems…

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Sham

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

As the world war progressed rentals went down till it became impossible to meet living expenses without throwing in my every resource. I had no time to paint so had to rent the studio flat and make do myself with a basement room and a tent in my…

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