Product Description: Brigid Keenan was a successful young London fashion journalist when she fell in love with a diplomat and left behind the gilt chairs of the Paris salons for a large chicken shed in Nepal. Her bestselling account of life as a “trailing spouse,” Diplomatic Baggage, won the hearts of thousands in countries all over the world...read more

An exploration of the British aristocracy during the Romantic era as reflected by the life of Mary Nisbet, the Countess of Elgin, discusses her history-making work as the Ambassador Extraordinaire to the Ottoman Empire, from her efforts to bring the smallpox vaccine to the Middle East to her safe removal of classical marbles from the Parthenon. Reprint. 20,000 first printing.

An exploration of the British aristocracy during the Romantic era as reflected by the life of Mary Nisbet, the Countess of Elgin, discusses her history-making work as the Ambassador Extraordinaire to the Ottoman Empire.

Drawing on diaries, memoirs, and personal correspondence, this fascinating study explores the private world of the wives of foreign service diplomats, examining the challenges, hardships, and pageantry of the lives of nearly one hundred women, including Vita Sackville-West, Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, and Lady Diana Cooper. Reprint.

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Product Description: What is a wife's role in the modern diplomatic service? Does she follow her husband wherever his career and the needs of the service take him, as soldier's wives were once said to follow the drum? Is this role a career in itself - supporting her husband in his embassy or high commission and carrying out social duties? And all this against the backdrop of a security provided by a great power?Sally James's account is very different...read more

Product Description: Stated First Edition - 1982. Hardcover with DJ. DJ has mild shelf and edge wear from normal handling. DJ is price clipped. Edges of boards are lightly sun faded. Clean unmarked copy. Satisfaction guaranteed!