The Gay Cockade

by Temple Bailey

A collection of unusual short stories from the prolific best-selling American novelist and short story writer. Demonstrates her keen knowledge of character and environment, and shows how romance comes to different people.

220 pages, Paperback

First published March 1, 2006

About the author

Known as "Queen of the Romantic Novel", Irene Temple Bailey was born in Petersburg, Virginia. Her childhood was spent in Washington, D.C., and she attended a girls' school in Richmond, Virginia. In the early 1900s, she had her fiction published in national magazines such as The Saturday Evening Post, Cavalier Magazine, Cosmopolitan, American Magazine, McClure's, Woman's Home Companion, Good Housekeeping, and McCall's.

Her success with short stories inspired her to try her hand at books, and her first novel, Judy, was published in 1907. She eventually wrote over 25 best-selling books and became one of the most successful authors of her time. Later she also ventured into screenwriting; in 1914 she wrote the screenplay for the Vitagraph Studios film Auntie.

Temple Bailey is probably most famous for her short story, "A Parable of Motherhood."

Source: https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/1...

Reviews

[Khris Sellin]

A collection of good old-fashioned love stories, written in the 1920s and based mostly in Virginia and DC.

It wasn't until the end when we got some really good advice, though, from the short story BEGGARS ON HORSEBACK:

The mass of men who had gathered were largely foreigners who knew little of the real meanings of democracy. Max was telling them what it meant to be a good American. He told it simply, but he was in dead earnest.... He wanted men to be good Americans, he wanted them to know the privileges they might enjoy in a free country, and he was telling them how to keep it free-not by violence and mob rule but by remembering their obligations as citizens. He told them that they must be always on the side of law and order, that they must fight injustice not with the bomb and the red flag but with their votes.

"Vote for the man you trust, and not for the man who inflames your passions. Your vote is a sacred thing; when you sell it you dishonor yourself. Respect yourself, and you'll respect the country that has made a man of you."

The response was immediate, the applause tumultuous.

Thanks for sharin', Sharon! ;-)

[Little Red Readinghood · Rating 3 out of 5]

A series of short stories written for women during the turn of the century. Has that old fashioned view point that I enjoy.