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| | Daughters of Britannia:
The Lives and Times of Diplomatic Wives
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| | by Katie Hickman
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ZIN Product Number: 10004178
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| | | |  | | | Product Details
 Format: Hardcover, 352 pages
Publisher: Morrow,William & Co
ISBN: 0060188626
Release Date: Jan 3, 2003
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In an absorbing mixture of poignant biography and wonderfully entertaining social history, Daughters of Britannia offers the story of diplomatic life as it has never been told before.
Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, Vita Sackville-West and Lady Diana Cooper are among the well-known wives of diplomats who represented Britain in the far-flung corners of the globe. Yet, despite serving such crucial roles, the vast majority of these women are entirely unknown to history. Who was Mrs Vigor, gossiping from St Petersburg in the 1730s about the intrigues of the imperial court, or Miss Tully, incarcerated in the British consulate in famine-torn Tripoli on the eve of the French Revolution?
Drawing on letters, private journals and memoirs, as well as contemporary oral history, Katie Hickman explores not only the public pomp and glamour of diplomatic life, but also the most intimate, private face of this most fascinating and mysterious world. Far from leading pampered lives of luxury and privilege, many women endured harsh, isolated circumstances that they continuously met with remarkable resourcefulness and strength: journeys could take many months to complete, medical facilities were often primitive or nonexistent and young children frequently died due to the conditions, not to mention wars, kidnappings and assassination attempts.
Touching on the lives of nearly a hundred diplomatic wives (as well as sisters and daughters), Daughters of Britannia is a brilliant and compelling account of more than three centuries of British diplomacy as seen through the eyes of some of its most intrepid but least heralded participants.
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| | | |  | | | | Acknowledgments | ix | | Author's Note | xi | | List of Principal Women | xiii | | List of Illustrations | xv | | Prologue | xvii | | Introduction | xxi | | 1 | Getting There | 1 | | 2 | The Posting | 26 | | 3 | Partners | 48 | | 4 | Private Life | 69 | | 5 | Embassy Life | 90 | | 6 | Ambassadresses | 112 | | 7 | Public Life | 133 | | 8 | Social Life | 162 | | 9 | Hardships | 190 | | 10 | Children | 220 | | 11 | Dangers | 247 | | 12 | Rebel Wives | 271 | | 13 | Contemporary Wives | 290 | | Notes | 301 | | Bibliography | 311 | | Index | 315 |
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