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Frances Wilson Huard
American-born writer, translator and lecturer
Frances Wilson Huard (October 2, 1885 – February 1969) was an American-born writer, translator, and lecturer who wrote memoirs of life during World War I in France.
Early life
Frances Barrie Wilson was the daughter of comic actor Francis Wilson and his first wife, actress Mira Barrie.[1]
Career
Huard is best known for her memoirs, My Home in the Field of Honour (1916),[2] and My Home in the Field of Mercy (1917), both about living in France during World War I.
Her husband Charles Huard, a French artist, provided illustrations for her books. She described turning their summer estate at Villiers, near Soissons, into a hospital,[3][4] riding a bicycle after her horses were requisitioned, and managing a household under wartime conditions.
In one incident, rather than waking the young men assigned for late night guard duty, she (and her dogs) went in their ste