The Book of Small

by Emily Carr

Overview

Thank you for checking out this book by Theophania Publishing. We appreciate your business and look forward to serving you soon. We have thousands of titles available, and we invite you to search for us by name, contact us via our website, or download our most recent catalogues. All our Sundays were exactly alike. They began on Saturday night after Bong the Chinaboy had washed up and gone away, after our toys, dolls and books, all but "The Peep of Day" and Bunyan's "Pilgrim's Progress", had been stored away in drawers and boxes till Monday, and every Bible and prayer-book in the house was puffing itself out, looking more important every minute. Then the clothes-horse came galloping into the kitchen and straddled round the stove inviting our clean clothes to mount and be aired. The enormous wooden tub that looked half coffin and half baby-bath was set in the middle of the kitchen floor with a rag mat for dripping on laid close beside it. The great iron soup pot, the copper wash-boiler and several kettles covered the top of the stove, and big sister Dede filled them by working the kitchen pump-handle furiously. It was a sad old pump and always groaned several times before it poured. Dede got the brown Windsor soap, heated the towels and put on a thick white apron with a bib. Mother unbuttoned us and by that time the pots and kettles were steaming. Dede scrubbed hard. If you wriggled, the flat of the long-handled tin dipper came down spankety on your skin. As soon as each child was bathed Dede took it pick-a-back and rushed it upstairs through the cold house. We were allowed to say our prayers kneeling in bed on Saturday night, steamy, brown-windsory prayers--then we cuddled down and tumbled very comfortably into Sunday.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781519340542
Publisher:	CreateSpace Publishing
Publication date:	11/16/2015
Pages:	178
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.38(d)

About the Author

The legendary Emily Carr (1871-1945) was primarily a painter, but she first gained recognition as an author. Known as Millie to her family and friends, Emily was born on December 13, 1871. Surrounded by the rugged landscape of British Columbia, Emily grew a passion for nature, animals and art. When her parents died during her early teens, Emily escaped her oldest sister's strict rule by leaving to study Art in San Francisco. She later studied in Paris and London where she was hospitalized for stress relief. After teaching Art to children in Vancouver she returned to Victoria in 1913. In later years taking up painting again, Emily's meeting with The Group Of Seven influenced her profoundly. She wrote seven popular, critically acclaimed books about her journeys to remote Native communities and about her life as an artist as well as her life as a small child in Victoria. Emily Carr's first book, Klee Wyck, won a Governor General's award for general literature, the year that it was published in 1941.