All Elizabeth Ashe Audiobooks

2 Audiobooks

Atlantic Narratives: Modern Short Stories

by Elizabeth Ashe, Katharine Butler, Henry Seidel Canby, Cornelia A. P. (Cornelia Atwood Pratt) Comer, Charles Caldwell Dobie, Madeleine Z. (Madeleine Zabriskie) Doty, H. G. (Harrison Griswold) Dwight, John Galsworthy, Katharine Fullerton Gerould, Zephine Humphrey, Mary Lerner, F. J. Louriet, E. V. (Edward Verrall) Lucas, Margaret Lynn, C. A. Mercer, Margaret Prescott Montague, E. (Edith) Nesbit, Anne Douglas Sedgwick, Dallas Lore Sharp, Margaret Pollock Sherwood, Ernest Starr, Amy Wentworth Stone, Arthur Russell Taylor

Atlantic Narratives: Modern Short Stories; Second Series

by Mary Antin, Elizabeth Ashe, Kathleen Carman, Cornelia A. P. (Cornelia Atwood Pratt) Comer, Mazo De la Roche, Annie Hamilton Donnell, James Edmund Dunning, Rebecca Hooper Eastman, William Addleman Ganoe, Lucy Huffaker, Joseph Husband, S. H. Kemper, Christina Krysto, Ellen Mackubin, Edith Ronald Mirrielees, Margaret Prescott Montague, Edward Morlae, Meredith Nicholson, Kathleen Thompson Norris, Laura Spencer Portor, Lucy Pratt, Elsie Singmaster, Charles Haskins Townsend, Edith Wyatt

About the author

Elizabeth H. Ashe was an American nurse, social reformer, and author best known for Intimate Letters from France During America's First Year of War (1918). In that book, she drew on her firsthand experience with the American Red Cross in France, where she served as chief nurse of the Children's Bureau in the Department of Civil Affairs.

Before and beyond her wartime writing, she was also known in San Francisco civic life. Sources about her connect her with the founding of the settlement house that became the Telegraph Hill Neighborhood Center, reflecting a long commitment to public health and the welfare of children and working women.

Her writing stands out for its direct, human scale. Rather than offering a distant history of World War I, she showed what relief work looked like day by day: injured children, exhausted nurses, displaced families, and the stubborn effort to keep caring in the middle of crisis.