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Author: Emily Carr

Mean Baby

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

She had straight honey-coloured hair, pale eyes, puckered brow, pouting mouth, and a yell, a sheer, bad-tempered, angry yell which she used for no other reason than to make herself thoroughly unpleasant. Bodily she was a healthy child. Her family brought her to my house suddenly because the whole…

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Always Something

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

so young, so pretty, so charming! But when it came to a matter of shrewd bargaining, you couldn’t beat her. Her squeezing of the other fellow’s price was clever–she could have wrung juice from a raw quince. Her big husband was entirely dominated by his tall, slender wife; he…

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Brides

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

Lower East and Lower West were both rented to brides. The brides sat in their living-rooms with only a wall dividing; they looked out at the same view. They did not know each other. In the East flat, the young husband was trying to accommodate himself to a difficult…

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