Before winning recognition for her painting and writing, Emily Carr built a small apartment building with four suites that she hoped would earn her a living. But things turned out worse than expected, and in her forties, the gifted artist found herself shoveling coal and cleaning up other people's messes.
The House of All Sorts is a collection of forty-one stories of those hard-working days and the parade of tenants -- young couples, widows, sad bachelors and rent evaders. Carr is at her most rueful, but filled with energy and an inextinguishable hope.
Carr also ran a small kennel and bred bobtails to help out her meagre income. In an additional twenty-five stories, she lovingly describes the mutual bonds of affection and companionship between her and her dogs.
Her writing is vital and direct, aware and poignant, and as well regarded today as when The House of All Sorts was first published in 1944 to critical and popular acclaim.
Authors
- Control Number Identifier
- CaOOCEL
- Dewey Decimal Classification Number
- 759.11
- Dewey Decimal Edition Number
- 22
- General Note
- First published: Toronto : Oxford University Press, 1944 Issued as part of the desLibris books collection
- Geographic Area Code
- n-cn-bc
- ISBN
- 9781553650546 9781926706078
- LCCN
- ND249.C3
- LCCN Item number
- A2 2004eb
- Modifying agency
- CaBNVSL
- Original cataloging agency
- CaOONL
- Physical Description | Extent
- 1 electronic text (196 p., [1] p. of plate)
- Publisher or Distributor Number
- CaOOCEL
- Rights
- Access restricted to authorized users and institutions
- System Control Number
- (CaBNVSL)slc00222855 (OCoLC)471124086 (CaOOCEL)417004
- System Details Note
- Mode of access: World Wide Web
- Transcribing agency
- CaOONL
Table of Contents
- I guess its in my blood to want to be like Emily Carr. I dont know much about her but weve been to some of the same places. 9
- Klee Wyck. 9
- Emily and I shared him for a while I know that. He was impossible to paint and whats more she found the forest a deeper attraction. 10
- Jimmy rows further into the sea-drift 10
- Emily says its too rough to go sailing... 11
- Western Womans Weekly. 14
- Western Womans Weekly The House of All Sorts 15
- Hundreds and Thousands cul de sac 16
- Klee Wyck The Book of Small The House of All Sorts 17
- The House of All Sorts Growing Pains The House of All Sorts The House of All Sorts 19
- To my friends Bill and Irene Clarke 22
- - . . . - 83
- My deear 114
- To my sister Alice 148
- Thats 184
- Gertie 188
