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...Edith Almedingen was born in St. Petersburg 46 years ago. Her autobiography, Tomorrow Will Come, was a slight, delicate and frightening record of her first 24 years. It began with a poetic evocation of St. Petersburg, ended with her escape to Italy-a steppingstone to her home in England, where she landed in 1923, "tired, ill, and more than uncertain of the future...
...Author. When Edith Almedingen was ten, she talked to Leo Tolstoy about Homer. So, at least, her kinspeople told her. Tolstoy thought she might become a poet. Her father was a scientist. She had Danish and English grandparents, grown brothers and sisters. Her family was poor, "though we still kept four domestics." They lived in a flat on one of the Lines of the Vassily Island in St. Petersburg. (The Lines were laid out as canals, but built into wide, tree-shaded boulevards.) Her parents were separated; her father taught at the fashionable Xenia, school for daughters of the nobility...
...time Edith got to the huge palace of Xenia, her father, whom she had never known, was dead. The senior girls remembered him, used to discuss him loudly when Edith was in hearing distance, praising him to the skies to salt the wound of her ignorance of him. But when one of them said he must have been a cad to have left Edith's mother, Edith slapped her, nearly got expelled...
After the Revolution, Edith lived by trading the family possessions with the peasants who brought food to the city. She could not understand their sense of values. They were indifferent to costly articles, but gave her a week's supply of food for an old leather album of her family's photographs. After her escape to England, she wrote a historical novel, Young Catherine, a biography of Hadrian, The English Pope, a study, The Catholic Church in Russia, and her moving autobiography that won the $5,000 Little, Brown nonfiction prize...
...Ensign Edith Kingdon Gould (see cut), sightly great-granddaughter of the late Robber Baron Jay Gould, stood at the head of her graduating class at the Naval Reserve Midshipmen's School in Northampton, Mass. Not a college graduate, the daughter of socialite Financier Kingdon Gould of Manhattan enlisted in the WAVES as an apprentice seaman in October 1942, worked her way through t he ranks to an officer-candidate appointment...