The House of All Sorts

Emily Carr was born in Victoria, British Columbia, in 1871, and died there in 1945. She studied art in San Francisco, London and Paris. Except for a period of fifteen years when she was discouraged by the reception to her work, she was a commited painter. After 1927, when she was encouraged by the praise of the Group of Seven, interest in her paintings grew and she gained recognition as one of Canada's most gifted artists. Now, nearly sixty years after her death, her reputation continues to grow.Susan Musgrave is a critically acclaimed, award-winning poet, novelist, columnist, reviewer, editor and non-fiction writer. She has been nominated, and has received awards, for her poetry, fiction, non-fiction, personal essays and children's writing, as well as for her work as an editor. She is a four-time finalist for the Governor-General's Award, and in 1996 received the Tilden (CBC/Saturday Night) Canadian Literary Award for Poetry and the Vicky Metcalf Short Story Editor's Award.Musgrave has published three novels, fifteen collections of poems, four children's books and two books of non-fiction. Her most recent novel is Cargo of Orchids (Random House in. U.S., Knopf in Canada), her most recent collection of poetry is What the Small Day Cannot Hold: Collected Poems 1970-1985 (Beach Holme, 2000), and her non-fiction is Great Musgrave and Musgrave Landing: Musings on the Writing Life. She has also edited three anthologies: Nerves Out Loud: Critical Moments in the Lives of Seven Teen Girls, You Be Me: Friendships in the Lives of Teen Girls and Certain Things About My Mother: Daughters Speak. In addition, she writes a monthly column for The Ottawa Citizen and Focus on Women.Susan Musgrave's writing appears in many anthologies, including The Norton Introduction to Literature (1994); Fever: Sensual Stories by Women Writers (Harcourt Brace, 1994); Without a Guide: Contemporary Women's Travel Adventure (Macfarlane Walter & Ross, 1994); Best American Erotica (Simon & Schuster, 1995); Best American Poetry (Scribner/Simon & Schuster, 1995).