11 Facts About Mildred Aldrich

Mildred Aldrich was an American journalist, editor, writer and translator.

Mildred Aldrich spent her early career as a journalist and editor in Boston before moving to Paris, where she continued working as a foreign correspondent and translator.

Mildred Aldrich published a novel and four accounts of her life based on collections of her letters written during the war years.

Mildred Aldrich was born on November 16,1853, in Providence, Rhode Island, to Edwin and Lucy Ayers Aldrich.

Mildred Aldrich grew up in Boston and graduated from Everett High School in 1872.

Mildred Aldrich joined The Boston Journal in 1894 and moved the following year to the Boston Herald, where she worked as a drama critic.

Mildred Aldrich had a birds-eye view of the first Battle of the Marne and began to write a series of letters about her life during the war.

Mildred Aldrich received the French Legion of Honor in 1922 for her war work and her influence on the United States entry into the war.

In 1926 Mildred Aldrich completed an autobiography entitled Confessions of a Breadwinner, which resides in the collections of the Schlesinger Library at Harvard University.

Mildred Aldrich suffered a heart attack and died on February 19,1928, at the American Hospital in Neuilly.

Mildred Aldrich is buried at the Church of St Denis in Quincy-Voisins, France.