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How Dear to My Heart
This is a story to bring back some of the things we shall never see or hear again- things to make us laugh and then catch our breath with a sharp stab of memory. For all of us, it is a happy, humorous glance over our shoulder at the way things used to be.
Our Hearts Were Young and Gay
OUR HEARTS WERE YOUNG AND GAY by CORNELIA OTIS SKINNER and EMILY KIMBROUGH. CHAPTER 1: WE had been planning the trip for over a year. Pinching, scraping and going without sodas, we had salvaged from our allowances and the small time jobs we each had found the preceding vacation the sum of 80.00, which was the cost of a minimum passage on a Canadian Pacific liner of the cabin class. Our respec tive families had augmented our finances by letters of credit generous enough to permit us to live for three months abroad if not in the lap of luxury, at least on the knees of comfort. For months we had been exchanging letters brimming over with rapturous plans and lyric an ticipation and now June had ...
Floating Island
On an April morning in 1967, a converted barge, the Palinurus, set off down the Seine river to explore France. On board were bicycles, a Volkswagen Microbus, Emily Kimbrough and ten friends, ready for whatever France would show them.
How Dear to My Heart
Best known for Our Hearts Were Young and Gay, written with Cornelia Otis Skinner, Emily Kimbrough was one of the most popular writers of this century. How Dear to My Heart, first published in 1944, is her tribute to a happy childhood spent in Muncie, Indiana, a humorous glance over her shoulder at the way things used to be. "This is more than a funny book, a period piece. Dignity and love are never quaint. They were the essence of this civilization. They are the essence of a book which is going to be dear to a lot of hearts besides the author." --Boston Globe (on the original publication) " . . . poignant, evocative, humorous." --Indiana Magazine of History
It Gives Me Great Pleasure ...
A collection of essays written by Emily Kimbrough as she traveled around the country during a lecture tour.
We Followed Our Hearts to Hollywood
An account of Emily Kimbrough and Cornelia Otis Skinner's trip to Hollywood in connection with the production of the motion picture based on their book Our hearts were young and gay.
Hand in Hand
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