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Drawing on diaries, memoirs, and personal correspondence, this fascinating study explores the private world of the wives of foreign service diplomats, examining the challenges, hardships, and pageantry of the lives of nearly one hundred women, including Vita Sackville-West, Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, and Lady Diana Cooper. Reprint.
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<p>In an absorbing mixture of poignant biography and wonderfully entertaining social history, <em>Daughters of Britannia </em>offers the story of diplomatic life as it has never been told before.</p> <p>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.</p> <p>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.</p> <p>Touching on the lives of nearly 100 diplomatic wives (as well as sisters and daughters), <em>Daughters of Britannia</em> 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.</p>
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