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Hickman, Katie Daughters of Britannia: The Lives and Times of Diplomatic Wives
William Morrow & Co 1999 0060188626 / 9780060188627 First U.S. Edition Hard Cover Fine Fine
Near-new condition. Stated First U.S.Edition. NO remainder marks or price clippings. Illustrated. 321 pages. Tight spine, clean pages. NO writing, marks or tears inside book. Synopsis: 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. 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. Touching on the lives of nearly 100 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. Library Journal: This book sheds light on some women who have previously appeared as little more than footnotes in history while also drawing on the experiences of better-known figures, such as Vita Sackville-West and Lady Mary Wortley Montagu. As Hickman points out, these women's writings and experiences are often far more interesting to current readers than those of the men they accompanied to remote parts of the world as official representatives of the great British Empire. Through private letters, diaries, memoirs, and interviews, Hickman provides glimpses into the exotic, often painfully lonely worlds of diplomatic wives, sisters, and daughters dating from the mid-17th century up to modern times. Structured in chapters that encapsulate the various aspects of these women's lives abroad ("Getting There," "Private Life," "Children," "Hardships," etc.), the book relates both great adventure and desolate boredom, the grandiose and the absurd. Although this book was obviously written for a British audience (published in the U.K. in 1999, it was a London Times best seller), it will engage North American readers as well. It is scholarly but eminently readable and is suitable for academic women's studies collections and larger public libraries. Shauna Rutherford, Univ. of Calgary Lib., Alberta Copyright 2001 Cahners Business Information. Biography: Katie Hickman was born into a diplomatic family in 1960 and has spent more than twenty-five years living abroad in Europe, the Far East and Latin America. She is the author of three previous books: A Trip to the Light Fantastic Travels with a Mexican Circus, which was one of the Independent's 1993 Books of the Year and was short-listed for the 1994 Thomas Cook Travel Book Award; The Quetzal Summer, a novel set in the Andes, for which she was short-listed for the 1993 Sunday Times Young British Writer of the Year Award; and Dreams of the Peaceful Dragon a Journey into Bhutan. She is featured in the Oxford University Press guide to women travellers, Wayward Women.
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Hickman, Katie Daughters of Britannia: The Lives and Times of Diplomatic Wives
New York, New York, U.S.A. Perennial 2002 0060934239 / 9780060934231 Trade Paperback Near-Fine
Near-fine condition. NO remainder marks or clippings. Tight spine, clean pages. NO writing, marks or tears inside book. 321 pages. Pages show tanning. Illustrated. Covers are clean and bright, show slight wear (NO tears). From Publishers Weekly For those who enjoy reading about travel and life abroad, this enormously entertaining social history of the female side of diplomatic life is a must. The author, herself the daughter of a diplomat, closely observed her mother's 28 years on the road. Drawing on published memoirs, letters, diaries, interviews and personal reminiscences, Hickman's (A Trip to the Light Fantastic: Travels with a Mexican Circus) written account ranges from the 17th through the 20th centuries. Organizing her anecdotes around various aspects of the diplomatic life, such as "getting there," "private lives," and "hardships," rather than by time period, the author contrasts the experiences of individual women (although it is occasionally difficult to keep track of who's who). When her husband was posted to Teheran in 1849, Mary Sheil discovered that she was virtually confined to the luxurious but isolated British residence. On the other hand, Harriet Granville, whose husband was posted to Paris in the 1820s, found herself devoting most of her time to diplomatic ceremonies. Many of the women had to cope with either unfamiliar food or a severe lack of food. Miss Tully (first name unknown) left letters describing the effects of pestilence and famine on her life in 1784 Tripoli. Often women were placed in danger by their position, for example Veronica Atkinson, whose family was caught up in the Romanian Revolution of 1989. Feelings of homesickness and other difficulties were common, yet Hickman presents most of the wives as enjoying adventurous lives that she describes as "quite exciting really." Photos. Agent, Gill Coleridge. (June 6)Forecast: Given its Anglocentric subject, this delightful book will be less widely reviewed here than it was in England. This may prevent it from reaching its full audience.
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