A Woman of Two Wars: The Life of Mary Borden

<p>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.  </p> <p>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.</p>