My Vice-Regal Life: Diaries 1978 to 1982

By Anna Cowen

Sunday, 8 January 1978 I have decided to keep a diary during Zelman's term of office as Governor-General. I am pleased, because I forget so much and the re-reading of a sentence brings whole occasions, scenes, and otherwise forgotten things, vividly back to mind... And so begins an extraordinary record of the life of a Governor-General's wife. Lady Anna Cowen's edited diaries capture the day-to-day life--the wardrobe fittings, the running of an enormous household--as well as the pomp and circumstance of vice-regal duties during the term Sir Zelman Cowen, the 'healing Governor-General', served after the dismissal by Sir John Kerr of the Whitlam government.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0522871275
• ISBN13: 9780522871272
• Release Date: July 2017
• Publisher: Miegunyah Press
• Length: 277 Pages
• Dimensions: 1.5" x 6.5" x 9.6"