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Told in a French garden, August, 1914. By: Mildred Aldrich: novel (World's Classics)
Told in a French garden, August, 1914. By: Mildred Aldrich: novel (World's Classics) | Mildred Aldrich
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Mildred Aldrich (November 16, 1853 - February 19, 1928) was an American journalist and writer. *Biography* She was born in 1853 in Providence, Rhode Island. She grew up in Boston, taught at elementary school there and went on into journalism.She wrote for the Boston Home Journal, the Boston Journal and the Boston Herald. She started the short-lived The Mahogany Tree in 1892. In 1898, she moved to France, and, while there, became a friend of Gertrude Stein and Alice B. Toklas.She worked as a foreign correspondent and translator. Aldrich moved to Huiry, near Paris, in 1914, only months before the outbreak of the First World War.Her house there overlooked the Marne river valley, and her experiences during the First Battle of the Marne, as detailed in her letters to friends in the U.S., constitute her first book, A Hilltop on the Marne (1915). Following the success of that work, Aldrich produced three more collections of her wartime letters. On the Edge of the War Zone (1917) contains letters dating from the aftermath of the Marne battle until the entry of the U.S. into the war, The Peak of the Load (1918) details most of the final year of the war, and When Johnny Comes Marching Home (1919) describes her experiences in the months immediately following the war's end. Aldrich also produced one novel, Told in a French Garden, August 1914 (1916), and in 1926 completed an autobiography entitled Confessions of a Breadwinner, which resides in the collections of the Schlesinger Library at Harvard University, but has never been published. Aldrich received the French Legion of Honor 1922 for her war work and her influence on behalf of the US entry into the war.In February 1928, she suffered a heart attack and died a few days later at the American Hospital in Neuilly. She is buried at the Church of St Denis in Quincy-Voisins.
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5⭐️ I give this rating based on the fact that I got a chill from reading the ending. Maybe it was due to the fact that the 9 storytellers in the French garden set in August 1914 felt real. Aldrich wrote this as fiction; but I believed each character existed and having the knowledge of what was to come grieved me. WWI looms and time is a thief of their joy. Fantastic storytelling in what is said and also left unsaid.
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Jess_Read_This @Tamra I hope you enjoy it! I recommend this one. It‘s not like any other book I‘ve read before. The plot set up and style are unique. We never know anyone‘s actual names- they are identified mainly by profession or attribute. The narrator is simply known as “Me”. It‘s rare I say this, but I‘d love to see this book translated on screen. I think it would be a terrific movie too. 2y
Tamra @Jess_Read_This now I‘m more intrigued! 👏🏾 2y
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LeahBergen This sounds amazing! 2y
Cathythoughts Lovey! Stacking. 2y
MrsK Scrolling through your #jessreads2022 and found this. Adding to my stack now. Have you read Beverly Nichols Merry Hall books? 2y
Jess_Read_This @MrsK I haven‘t read Merry Hall yet (and am embarrassed to say how long it‘s sat on my bookshelf lol). Did you love it? I picked up another of his while on vacation this year that I haven‘t gotten to either. Should I start reading his books with Merry Hall, though? 2y
MrsK @Jess_Read_This if you want to follow his journey the read them in order. I love all of his books…but he can be a bit acerbic in his attitude. 2y
Jess_Read_This @MrsK Thank you for the tip and nudge to pull Merry Hall off the shelf. ❤️ 2y
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