The House of All Sorts

"The House of All Sorts could not have been quite itself in any other spot in the world than just where it stood, here, in Victoria..."

The title of this collection refers to the apartment house Emily Carr built in 1913 when she gave up teaching art and hoped to realize enough from rents to support her devotion to her painting. This is the story of her experiences as a landlady - a bitterly unhappy period of more than twenty years. War and economic conditions forced her to supplement her income, leaving little time for art. Only her animals and the pleasure of an occasional sketching trip to the woods alleviated her misery. THE HOUSE OF ALL SORTS is an unforgettable and moving memoir.

ISBN 0-7725-1616-2
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