Daughters of Britannia: the lives and times of diplomatic wives

Physical description: xxviii, 321 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : il lustrations, portraits ; 24cm. Subjects: Diplomats' spouses -- Great Britai n -- Biography.

From Publisher:

An authoritative and entertaining account by one of our most talented writers of the courageous and unusual women who have been the backbone of the British Empire and foreign service.

'English ambassadresses are usually on the dotty side and leaving their embassies drives them completely off their rockers' - Nancy Mitford

From the first exploratory expeditions into foreign lands, through the heyday of the British Empire and still today, the foreign service has been shaped and run behind the scenes by the wives of ambassadors and minor civil servants. Accompanying their spouses in the most extraordinary, tough, sometimes terrifying circumstances, they have struggled to bring their civilization with them. Their stories - from ambassadresses downwards - never before told, are a feast of eccentricity, genuine hardship and genuine heroism, and make for a hilarious, compelling and fascinating book.

Product Info

ISBN: 0006387802

ISBN-13: 9780006387800

Publisher: Flamingo

Year: 2000

Type: Used

Binding: Softcover

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