Daughters of Britannia: The Lives and Times of Diplomatic Wives

By Katie Hickman

Book Overview

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... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0060188626
• ISBN13: 9780060188627
• Release Date: June 2001
• Publisher: William Morrow
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 1.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.3" x 6.1" x 1.1"

Customer Reviews

a reader from new york

I think the first reviewer is being a little unfair towards this book. Yes, it skips around chronologically, but the aim of the book is to give the reader a taste of life in the diplomatic service from its beginnings to the current day, not be a biography of particular wives. On the first, the book succeeds very well. We hear about the glittering parties and receptions as well as the downright appalling conditions some families lived in (well into the 20th century, by the way). The wives are often in just as much danger as their husbands, and they are usually unpaid! Katie Hickman does a laudable job of giving these (mostly) admirable women their due.