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 ...
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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.
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This book is about the lives of British diplomatic ?wives? (mostly wives with a few daughters and one husband towards the end). Most of the stories are prior to the 19th century. While the sexism and pressure put on these women to act, essentially, as unpaid embassy employees is pretty shocking there are also some really fascinating stories. Stories include Miss Tully?s (female relative of diplomat Richard Tully, first name unknown) letters while in deep quarantine in plague ravaged Tripoli, the first hand account of the author?s own mother as a junior diplomatic wife when British diplomat Christopher Ewart-Briggs was assassinated in Ireland and the meteoric rise of Emma Hamilton from courtesan to society wife. It?s a pretty great book as long as you?re able to check your knee-jerk feminist response at the door.
