Upon the death of her father, Julia Child’s mother Carolyn, who inherited the Weston Paper fortune, left her husband John, a wealthy landowner from California.
John was disapproving of his daughter’s marriage to a wealthy Eastern aesthete. The money left by Julia Child cushioned Paul Child’s civil service salary and enables him to go out to eat.
In the early 1930s, Julia McWilliams was born into a wealthy family, the son of a millionaire. He cultivated the values of education and morals in his children, and his wife put a high value on education.
She studied history, mathematics, French, and swimming in school and enrolled in Smith College in Massachusetts. She graduated from the college in 1934. She also went on to work as a senior typist for the Office of War Information in Washington, DC, and became a writer and editor there.
Julia Child’s fortune was estimated to be $38 million. The books she wrote and her television appearances garnered her acclaim. Child established the Julia Child Foundation in 1995, which has the rights to her intellectual property.
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