Illustrated Daughters of Britannia the public and private worlds of the diplomatic wife - Hardcover

Hickman, Katie

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0007122217 ISBN 13: 9780007122219

Publisher: HarperCollins Illustrated, 2001

Synopsis

An authoritative, entertaining and moving account of the courageous and unusual women who have been the backbone of the foreign service.

Accompanying their spouses in the most extraordinary, tough, sometimes terrifying circumstances, the women written about in this book struggled to bring their civilisation with them.

The book will be beautifully illustrated with archive material, extracts from original letters between the women and their families at home, maps to show the routes they travelled and the places they were posted to and pictures of ephemera to evoke the lives they led. The chapters included are:

Getting There
• The Posting
• Private Life
• Embassy Life
• Public Life
• Social Life

About this title

About the Author

Katie Hickman was brought up in Europe, the Far East and South America, and educated at Oxford University. She has been travelling and writing ever since.

From the Back Cover

'An authoritative, entertaining and moving account of the courageous and unusual women who have been the backbone of the foreign service.'

Accompanying their spouses in the most extraordinary, tough, sometimes terrifying circumstances, the women written about in this book struggled to bring their civilisation with them.

The book will be beautifully illustrated with archive material, extracts from original letters between the women and their families at home, maps to show the routes they travelled and the places they were posted to and pictures of ephemera to evoke the lives they led.

Edition details

• Publisher: HarperCollins Illustrated
• Publication date: 2001
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0007122217
• ISBN 13: 9780007122219
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 192