Editing Richard Aldington (section)

==Death==
Aldington died in [[Sury]] on 27 July 1962, shortly after being honoured in Moscow on the occasion of his 70th birthday and the translation of some of his novels to [[Russian (language)|Russian]]. He was honored in the [[Soviet Union]], "even if some of the fêting was probably because he had, in his writings, sometimes suggested that the England he loved could, in certain of its aspects, be less than an earthly paradise."<ref>Thomas MacGreevy, untitled essay in ''Richard Aldington: An Intimate Portrait'' (Kershaw, Alister and Temple, Frédéric-Jacques, eds., 1965), pp. 52-64, quotation at p. 63.</ref>

Aldington is buried in the local cemetery in Sury. He was survived by a daughter, Catherine, the child of his second marriage, who died in 2010.<ref Name=War/>