Background
Kimbrough, Emily was born on October 23, 1898 in Muncie., Indiana, United States. Daughter of Hal Curry and Charlotte Emily (Wiles) Kimbrough.
("It Gives Me Great Pleasure," says the program chairman, ...)
"It Gives Me Great Pleasure," says the program chairman, and she and I know that she is, like a croquet player, up to the last two wickets. The audience must know, too, that she is approaching the stake because there have been few introductions on any platform that did not wind up with, "and so it gives me great pleasure to present---" But this is the point at which only the chairman and I, from past ecperience, share an anxiety. Sometimes I am standing in the wings waiting to hear myself introduced; frequently I am in a chair behind her. Wherever I am, my toes are curled with anxiety, and from the way she shifts her position at this point, I have a conviction that hers..." (from book, page 3)
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(This is, happily, another of Emily Kimbrough's delightful...)
This is, happily, another of Emily Kimbrough's delightful travel books, this time about a two-week cruise on a converted barge on the river Shannon, in Ireland. As the eight passengers hurried to board a Killaloe, the owner commented, "Time enough." And so there was, for what amounted to a suspension of time with no thought of clocks or calendars, just the quiet, constant beauty of the passing Irish scenery.
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Non-Fiction, Travel, Adventure, American Literature, Women's Literature
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(One April morning in 1967, the Palinurus, a converted bar...)
One April morning in 1967, the Palinurus, a converted barge, slipped its mooring at Samois, a village on the Seine, and began a lazy and idyllic voyage through the rivers and canals of France. Aboard were Emily and ten good friends. Included in the unusual cruise equipment were a number of bicycles for riding along the towpaths. There was also a Volkswagen Microbus for on-shore excursions. Parked in towns near the water when not in use, the Microbus was retrieved by taxi when the Palinurus made its stops. From their lively explorations on land the passengers returned to the dreamlike rhythm of the barge, a veritable floating island, content to be released from the tensions ashore, detached from earth and time. Adventures and misadventures, delightful and preposterous, starred their happy progress to Montbard on the Burgundy Canal. And Emily tells it with that joy of living and sense of nonsense only she can convey so irresistibly.
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(How Dear to My Heart (Library of Indiana Classics (Paperb...)
How Dear to My Heart (Library of Indiana Classics (Paperback)) How Dear to My Heart (Library of Indiana Classics (Paperback)) by Kimbrough, Emily ( Author ) Paperback Nov- 1991 Paperback Nov- 22- 1991
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( Best known for Our Hearts Were Young and Gay, written w...)
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
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(Hollywood called Cornelia Otis Skinner and Emily Kimbroug...)
Hollywood called Cornelia Otis Skinner and Emily Kimbrough to come out and help make a motion picture of Our Hearts Were Young And Gay. They had not traveled together since their trip to Paris in the early 1920's, about which that book was written, and they were dubious about the survival of their friendship over another voyage after so long an interval of time. But they and their friendship both survived and they came back bursting to tell the things they had seen and the things that had happened to them.
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Kimbrough, Emily was born on October 23, 1898 in Muncie., Indiana, United States. Daughter of Hal Curry and Charlotte Emily (Wiles) Kimbrough.
Bachelor, Bryn Mawr College, 1921; student, The Sorbonne, Paris, 1922.
(How Dear to My Heart (Library of Indiana Classics (Paperb...)
(One April morning in 1967, the Palinurus, a converted bar...)
(Actress Cornelia Otis Skinner and journalist Emily Kimbro...)
(This is, happily, another of Emily Kimbrough's delightful...)
( Best known for Our Hearts Were Young and Gay, written w...)
("It Gives Me Great Pleasure," says the program chairman, ...)
(Hollywood called Cornelia Otis Skinner and Emily Kimbroug...)
(Our Hearts Were Young and Gay: An Unforgettable Comic Chr...)
(Non-Fiction, Travel, Adventure, American Literature, Wome...)
(Forever Old, Forever New, by Kimbrough, Emily)
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(Travel by canal in France and USA.)
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Married John Wrench, December 31,1926. Children: Margaret Wrench Kuhn and Alis Wrench McCurdy (twins).