A book cover found by Chris Ambidge and posted on Facebook:
(#1)
Let’s dance!
Clearly from a time when gay predominantly meant ‘lighthearted, carefree, cheery’ and had not yet come into widespread use meaning ‘homosexual’.
The book, by James Woodward Sherman, was in fact published in 1928. Ann Burlingham unearthed this information about it:
Listed as a “book suitable for use in remedial reading” in a 1929 Teachers College Record article by Jane Mingo.
One of the illustrations:
(#2)
Annoying umbrella!
(I enjoy the idea that umbrellas sleep.)
July 16, 2013 at 12:46 pm |
I believe the same author penned “Out In the Kitchen” http://amzn.com/B004PKARKO
July 17, 2013 at 10:08 am |
[…] Yesterday’s venture into the book The Gay Kitchen (which has nothing to do with sexuality) led me to wonder about gay cookbooks. To start with, there are significant associations between gay men, food, and cooking (briefly explored in my “gay greens” postings, here and here); while the concentration of gay men among chefs and food writers seems to be less than for, say, hairdressers and organists, it looks substantial. So we were bound to get cookbooks aimed at gay men. […]