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Автор: Katie Hickman
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      KATIE HICKMAN

       Daughters of Britannia

      The Lives and Times of Diplomatic Wives

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       Dedication

       For Beatrice Hollond,a diamond amongst friends

      Contents

       Cover

       Title Page

       4. Private Life

       5. Embassy Life

       6. Ambassadresses

       7. Public Life

       8. Social Life

       9. Hardships

       10. Children

       11. Dangers

       12. Rebel Wives

       13. Contemporary Wives

       Plates

       Keep Reading

       Bibliography

       Index

       Acknowledgments

       List of Illustrations

       About the Author

       Author’s Note

       Notes

       Also by the Author

       Copyright

       About the Publisher

       A List of the Principal Women in the Book and the Primary Places Where They Served

Seventeenth Century Date first went abroad
The Countess of Winchilsea (Constantinople) 1661
Ann Fanshawe (Portugal, Spain) 1662
The Countess of Carlisle (Moscow) 1663
Katharine Trumbull (Paris) 1685
Eighteenth Century
Countess of Stair (Paris) 1715
Mary Wortley Montagu (Constantinople) 1716
Mrs Vigor (St Petersburg) 1730
Miss Tully (Tripoli) 1783
Emma Hamilton (Naples) 1786
Mary Elgin (Constantinople) 1799
Nineteenth Century
Elizabeth Broughton (Algiers) 1806
Elizabeth McNeill (Persia) 1823
Harriet Granville (The Hague, Paris) 1824
Anne Disbrowe (St Petersburg) 1825
Mary Sheil (Persia) 1849
Isabel Burton (Brazil, Damascus) 1861
Mary Fraser (Peking & Japan) 1874
Victoria Sackville (Washington) 1881
Mary Waddington (Moscow) 1883
Catherine Macartney (Kashgar) 1898
Susan Townley (China, Washington) 1898
Twentieth Century
Ella Sykes (Kashgar) 1915
Vita Sackville-West (Persia) 1926
Marie-Noele Kelly (Brussels, Turkey) 1929
Norah Errock (Iraq) 1930
Iona Wright (Trebizond, Ethiopia, Persia) 1939

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