Huard is best known for her memoirs,
My Home in the Field of Honour (1916), 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, 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 stead: Poor little chaps, it seemed a pity to wake them, but what was to be done? Presently an idea of replacing them myself dawned upon me: a second later it so enchanted me that I wouldn't have had them wake for anything. The whole thing was beginning to be terribly romantic. Slipping quietly away, I went to my room and got my revolver, and then going to the south front of the château, I softly whistled for my dogs... With these five as bodyguard I sauntered up the road in the brilliant moonlight, arriving in front of the town hall just as the clock was striking eleven. During and after the war, she toured the United States and Canada as a lecturer and sold her husband's etchings to raise funds for post-war relief. Other works by Huard were
With Those Who Wait (1918),
Lilies, White and Red (1919, a book of short fiction),
American Footprints in Paris (1921, co-authored with François Boucher), and a biography of her husband,
Charles Huard, 1874–1965 (1969). She also translated
Maurice Barrès' novel
Colette Baudoche (1918), Marcel Nadaud's
The Flying Poilu: A Story of Aerial Warfare (1918),
Alfred de Vigny's
Military Servitude and Grandeur (1919), and
Paul Arène's
The Golden Goat (1921) into English. She wrote essays from France for American publications, including
The Century,
The Bookman, and ''
Scribner's Magazine''. Her American family feared for her safety in France again during
World War II. ==Personal life==