342pp. Laminated light card covers. 8vo. A little gentle edge wear to card covers, some shadowing on text block edges. Gift inscription inked onto the title page else internally neat, clean, bright and tight.
Mary Borden, a smart and beautiful American heiress, left America to travel the world. By 1914 she was a celebrated literary hostess. mixing with the avant-garde and London's bohemian characters and counting among her friends Bernard Shaw, E M Forster, Ford Madox For and Ezra Pound. A new mother when the first world war broke out, she signed up to serve with the French Red Cross and six months later was managing a mobile hospital on the front line.
