Daughters of Britannia

The Lives and Times of Diplomatic Wives

by Katie Hickman

This study of the women who accompanied their husbands abroad as members of England's foreign service ranges from the 17th century to the 20th.

Editions of Daughters of Britannia

ISBN 9780006387800	Binding/Format Paperback	Publisher Trafalgar Square	Date 2000	Price £1.00	Good
ISBN 9780060188627	Binding/Format Hardcover	Publisher Harpercollins	Date 2001	Price $1.00	Good
ISBN 9780060934231	Binding/Format Paperback	Publisher Harpercollins	Date 2002	Price $1.20

Publisher Notes

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.