Overview
Transcript of Midred Aldrich's autobiography, Confessions Of A Breadwinner.
Dates
- Creation: 1926
Creator
- Aldrich, Mildred, 1853-1928 (Person)
Language of Materials
Materials in English.
Access Restrictions:
Access. Originals closed; use digital images or microfilm (M-114).
Conditions Governing Use
Copyright. Copyright in the papers created by Mildred Aldrich may be held by their authors, or the authors' heirs or assigns.
Copying. Papers may be copied in accordance with the library's usual procedures.
Extent
.63 linear feet (1+1/2 file boxes)The collection consists of four bound volumes containing Aldrich's transcript autobiography, entitled Confessions Of A Breadwinner, which she completed in 1926.
BIOGRAPHY
Mildred Aldrich, journalist, author and editor, was born in Providence, Rhode Island, to Edwin and Lucy Ayers (Baker) Aldrich. She was raised in Boston, Massachusetts. After graduation from Everett [High] School (1872), she taught elementary school in Boston for a brief period. She began her career as a journalist with the Boston Home Journal, and later worked for the Boston Journal and the Boston Herald. In January 1892 she founded The Mahogany Tree, which she edited until December 1892, when the magazine folded. Published weekly, The Mahogany Tree contained editorials, fiction, poetry, and drama and book reviews.
In 1898 Aldrich traveled to Paris, and subsequently settled there. While living in Paris, she became a close friend of Gertrude Stein and Alice B. Toklas, and was a member of their social circle. She worked as a foreign correspondent, translated plays from French into English, and negotiated the rights to the works of French playwrights for production in the United States. In 1914 she retired to "Hilltop" ("La Creste"), her cottage in Huiry, a village on the outskirts of Paris. While at "La Creste" she published four collections of her letters: Hilltop On the Marne (1915), On the Edge of the War Zone (1917), Peak of the Load (1918), and When Johnny Comes Marching Home (1919). She also published a novel, Told In A French Garden (1916). In her later years she was supported largely by a fund that had been established for her by Stein and Toklas in 1924. Aldrich died at "La Creste" on February 19, 1928.
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Accession number: 56-155
This autobiography of Mildred Aldrich was given to the Schlesinger Library by Theodore Johnson in October 1956.
Container List
Box 1: Volumes 1-3
Box 2: Volume 4
Processing Information
Reprocessed: December 1986
By: Susan J. von Salis
Occupation
Topical
Creator
- Aldrich, Mildred, 1853-1928 (Person)
- Title
- Aldrich, Mildred, 1853-1928. Autobiography of Mildred Aldrich, 1926: A Finding Aid
- Author
- Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America
- Language of description
- eng
- EAD ID
- sch00001
Repository Details
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