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What does the heart ask for when ambition and duty pull it in different directions?
In The Gay Cockade, Temple Bailey brings together short stories of youth, romance and the wish to make something of yourself. Young people face the pull between getting ahead and following the heart. Love, family and social duty give that question weight: what do you want, and what are you willing to choose?
A cockade is a knot of ribbon or a badge worn on a hat, a bright sign of loyalty, pride and youth. That image gives the collection its spirit. Bailey’s warm fiction offers a glimpse of early twentieth-century America through its manners, speech and hopes, with courtship and family close to the heart.
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- Young hearts with ambitions Meet young people whose hopes for themselves sit alongside the claims of love.
- Duty beside desire Explore the tension between what the heart wants and what duty asks.
- Courtship and family ties Enter a world where romance belongs within a wider circle of family expectations.
- A glimpse of another time Discover the manners, speech and hopes that shape Bailey’s early twentieth-century American world.
- Warmth without a hurry Settle into old-fashioned storytelling that makes room for affection, ambition and quiet questions.
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- A cockade stands for youth and pride
- Ambition and love often pull in different directions
- Read it for comfort and a glimpse of its era
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by Temple Bailey· 1921
Young people weigh their ambitions against duty and desire.
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Bailey wrote for a wide, loyal audience
Temple Bailey was one of the best-read American storytellers of her day. Her short stories and novels appeared in popular magazines, and many of them were later gathered into books. Readers followed her from one story to the next because they knew what kind of world they would find.
That world was usually decent and hopeful. Her characters are often young, often searching for a place in life, and often tested by money, family duty or a first serious love. The tone is gentle, and the lessons are plain. A reader who picks up one of her books is not looking for shock. A reader wants good company and a story that cares about its people.
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Temple Bailey
1880–1953 · American novelist
Temple Bailey was an American author of warmly romantic popular fiction, a fixture of the magazines and bestseller lists of her day. The Gay Cockade collects her short stories of love, ambition, and second chances.
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Who wrote The Gay Cockade?
The Gay Cockade was written by Temple Bailey, an American author of popular short stories and novels in the early twentieth century. She died in 1953 and is remembered for gentle, hopeful fiction about young people, family and love.
What does the title The Gay Cockade mean?
A cockade is a ribbon knot or badge worn on a hat as a sign of a cause or pride. Gay here means bright and merry. Together they suggest youthful spirit and a cheerful show of loyalty.
What kind of book is The Gay Cockade?
It is popular American fiction of the early twentieth century, in the style of Temple Bailey's other work. Expect a warm, clean, hopeful tone, with young people facing choices about ambition, duty and love.
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