She spent her early career as a journalist and editor in Boston before moving to Paris, where she continued working as a foreign correspondent and translator.

[1][2] In 1922, she was awarded the French Legion of Honour in recognition of her assistance to soldiers and refugees, and the influence her books apparently had in persuading the United States government to declare war on Germany.

[1][2] Aldrich moved to France in 1898, joining a circle of American expatriate writers that included Gertrude Stein and Alice B.

[6] Ironically, the First World War began three months later, and this site, with its clear view of the Marne River valley, would provide her greatest writing success.

[citation needed] Aldrich's sole work of fiction, the novel Told in a French Garden, August, 1914, which describes a dinner party where nine guests each tell a story, was published in 1916.

[2][7][3] A fund established in 1924 by her friends Gertrude Stein and Alice B. Toklas helped support Aldrich in her final years.