Description
Author:
Frances Wilson Huard
Publisher:
George H. Doran Company, 1916 — First Edition
Format:
Hardcover (no dust jacket, as issued). Includes original “Gift of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts” plate from the Free Public Library Commission.
Condition:
Very Good for its age. Firm binding, clean pages with expected age toning, light shelf wear. A handsome survivor from 1916 with strong historical presence.
My Home in the Field of Honour is Frances Wilson Huard’s vivid, surprisingly intimate memoir of life in France during the early years of World War I. Rather than focusing on battlefield strategy, Huard brings readers directly into the day-to-day reality of a household caught in the upheaval of war—what it felt like to open your home to wounded soldiers, watch villages change overnight, and maintain humanity when the world seemed to be unraveling.
She writes with warmth, humor, resilience, and a painter’s eye for detail. Her firsthand observations of French civilians—including women who unexpectedly became administrators, organizers, and caretakers—make this a fascinating early feminist wartime narrative.
This edition also carries the charm of history through its library provenance plate, making it both a compelling read and a wonderful artifact from the WWI era.
A perfect choice for readers who love true stories of courage, wartime memoirs, women’s history, or early 20th-century narrative nonfiction.