{"product_id":"daughters-of-britannia-the-lives-and-times-of-diplomatic-wives-9780060934231","title":"Daughters of Britannia: The Lives and Times of Diplomatic Wives","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn an absorbing mixture of poignant biography and wonderfully entertaining social history, \u003cem\u003eDaughters of Britannia \u003c\/em\u003eoffers the story of diplomatic life as it has never been told before.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eLady 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.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDrawing 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.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eTouching on the lives of nearly 100 diplomatic wives (as well as sisters and daughters), \u003cem\u003eDaughters of Britannia\u003c\/em\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eHickman, Katie:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - 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: \u003cem\u003eA Trip to the Light Fantastic -- Travels with a Mexican Circus, \u003c\/em\u003e which was one of the Independent's 1993 Books of the Year and was short-listed for the 1994 Thomas Cook Travel Book Award; \u003cem\u003eThe Quetzal Summer, \u003c\/em\u003e a novel set in the Andes, for which she was short-listed for the 1993 \u003cem\u003eSunday Times\u003c\/em\u003e Young British Writer of the Year Award; and \u003cem\u003eDreams of the Peaceful Dragon -- a Journey into Bhutan.\u003c\/em\u003e She is featured in the Oxford University Press guide to women travellers, \u003cem\u003eWayward Women.\u003c\/em\u003e","brand":"Harper Perennial","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50459892941074,"sku":"9780060934231","price":11.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_7d5de8f8-89b8-41f7-821f-c6c292bc2537.jpg?v=1730012233","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/daughters-of-britannia-the-lives-and-times-of-diplomatic-wives-9780060934231","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}