Our hearts were young and gay book

Buy this book Fetching prices. Add another edition? They discovered and they owned Europe, or such part of it as they awkwardly cantered over, and they adored almost everything they encountered. An edition of Our hearts were young and gay Our Hearts Were Young and Gay is a book by actress Cornelia Otis Skinner and journalist Emily Kimbrough, published in The book presents a description of their European tour in the s, when they were fresh out of college from Bryn Mawr.

Copy and paste this code into your Wikipedia page. Previews available in: English. Create new list Cancel. Certainly the shipwreck was not the fault of either of them, though Cornelia has always averred that the mere fact of Emily's being there helped bring it about.

Such things as they did not adore, they gays il. This was in the early twenties, and they were not quite in theirs. July 25, History. Our Hearts Were Young and Gay Hardcover – January 1, by Cornelia Otis Skinner (Author) See all formats and editions A humorous tale of the grand tour of Europe that the author and her best friend made in the 's.

Emily did nearly drown a man, but her intention was only to be helpful; and when she hit an English nobleman in the face, it was unpremeditated and in sport. Our hearts were young and gay Cornelia Otis Skinner, Corneli Borrow Listen Locate.

They longed to be considered worldly, but they were not of the world; they were on top of it. Skinner takes us from the innocence of youth in the s to the dawn of WWII, replete with all the faux pas and fiascoes you would expect from youth taking Europe on their own in the early part of the twentieth century when innocence still existed and innuendo was unheard of.

With Emily Kimbrough, she wrote Our Hearts Were Young and Gay, a hilarious description of their European tour after college.

Our Hearts Were Young

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They would not have known enough nor how to be bored. Delete Note Save Note. Need help? They laughed at nearly everything, but they cried, too, at England, and the sight of France, the Eiffel Tower and Joan of Arc. They had been brought up to know about such places, and sure enough they were true, and Cornelia and Emily were there, to see them.

Cornelia dressed in a variety of roles, swooping from the fresh, wholesome American girl, to a sultry Theda Bara 'vamp,' leaving her family dazed but proud.