appeared as a serialised account in the Atlantic Monthly. It was followed by On the Edge of the War Zone (1917), The Peak of the Load (1918) and When Johnny Comes Marching Home (1919). They are emotive first-person narratives, recollecting the individuals and events of Aldrich's own war years. Aldrich's sole work of fiction, the novel Told in a French Garden, August, 1914, which describes a dinner party where nine guests each tell a story, was published in 1916. She received the French Legion of Honor in 1922 for her war work and her influence on behalf of the US entry into the war. A fund established in 1924 by her friends Gertrude Stein and Alice B. Toklas helped support Aldrich in her final years. In 1926 Aldrich completed an autobiography entitled Confessions of a Breadwinner, which resides in the collections of the Schlesinger Library at Harvard University. The book has never been published, but digital images of the typed manuscripts are displayed on the Harvard University website. She suffered a heart attack and died on February 19, 1928, at the American Hospital in Neuilly. She is buried at the Church of St Denis (Cemetery of Quincy-Segy) in Quincy-Voisins, France. Bibliography Collections of letters A Hilltop on the Marne (1915) On the Edge of the War Zone (1917) The Peak of the Load (1918) When Johnny Comes Marching Home (1919) Novel Told In A French Garden, August 1914 (1916) References Slattery-Christy, David. Mildred on the Marne. Mildred Aldrich Frontline Witness 1914-1918. Spellmount/History Press, United Kingdom, 2013. External links Mildred Aldrich Papers. Schlesinger Library, Radcliffe Institute, Harvard University. Spartacus Educational 1853 births 1928 deaths 19th-century American writers 19th-century American women writers American newspaper reporters and correspondents American women journalists