Yet, despite serving such crucial roles, the vast majority of these women are entirely unknown to history. Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, Vita Sackville-West and Lady Diana Cooper are among the wellknown wives of diplomats who represented Britain in the far-flung corners of the globe. 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. She is featured in the Oxford University Press guide to women travellers, Wayward Women." - Publisher. She is the author of three previous books: A Trip to the Light Fantastic - Travels with a Mexican Circus, which was one of the Independent's 1993 Books of the Year and was short-listed for the 1994 Thomas Cook Travel Book Award The Quetzal Summer, a novel set in the Andes, for which she was short-listed for the 1993 Sunday Times Young British Writer of the Year Award and Dreams of the Peaceful Dragon - a Journey into Bhutan. 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. "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. Xxviii, 321 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates, illustrations 24 cm.
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