Fighting France: From Dunkerque to Belfort

by Edith Wharton

Overview

American novelist Edith Wharton was living in Paris when World War I broke out in 1914. She obtained permission to visit sites behind the lines, including hospitals, ravaged villages, and trenches. Fighting France: From Dunkerque to Belfort is a collection of magazine articles by the American writer Edith Wharton on her time in France during the First World War, including her visits to the French sectors of the Western Front.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781497562905
Publisher:	CreateSpace Publishing
Publication date:	04/06/2014
Pages:	256
Product dimensions:	5.00(w) x 7.99(h) x 0.54(d)

About the Author

Edith Wharton (1862-1937) was an American novelist and a short story writer. She was the first woman to win the Pulitzer Prize (in 1921, for The Age of Innocence). She was also one of the few foreigners allowed to travel to the front lines in France during the First World War. Her articles written about this period were collected in Fighting France. Throughout the war Wharton worked with refugees and in 1916 she was named a Chevalier of the Legion of Honour in recognition of her support for the displaced.

Alice Kelly is the Harmsworth Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Rothermere American Institute and a Junior Research Fellow at the University of Oxford. Her critical edition of Edith Wharton’s First World War reportage, Fighting France was published by EUP in December 2015 and she co-edited a Special Issue of Katherine Mansfield Studies on ‘Katherine Mansfield and the First World War’ (EUP, September 2014).

Date of Birth:

January 24, 1862

Date of Death:

August 11, 1937

Place of Birth:

New York, New York

Place of Death:

Saint-Brice-sous-Forêt, France

Education:

Educated privately in New York and Europe

Table of Contents

Note on the Text; Acknowledgements; Introduction: Wharton in Wartime; Fighting France; Further Reading; Notes.

What People are Saying About This

Jay Winter - Charles J. Stille Professor of History at Yale University

Alice Kelly's new edition of the journalism of Edith Wharton in First World War France is a valuable contribution to the literary history of the conflict. Here is a novelist, using all her skills as an eye witness to tell unknowing Americans of the staggering nature of a war the world had never seen before. A wonderful text, introduced with wit and authority.

Editorial Reviews

Alice Kelly's new edition of the journalism of Edith Wharton in First World War France is a valuable contribution to the literary history of the conflict. Here is a novelist, using all her skills as an eye witness to tell unknowing Americans of the staggering nature of a war the world had never seen before. A wonderful text, introduced with wit and authority.

Jay Winter - Charles J. Stille Professor of History at Yale University