Foreign Office

MS began on a top-secret job: writing anti-Nazi propaganda for MI6 , the Political Intelligence Department of the British Foreign Office .

After her intelligence work came a succession of temporary office jobs: for a different branch of the Foreign Office , for a tea company, and for the American Red Cross .

JT worked for the Foreign Office for two years from 1965. Her work there concerned China's relations with African and other Third World countries. She then became a teacher. She has taught English literature...

She progressed from her former casual jobs to being a temporary assistant clerk on the Polish desk of the Information Research Department at the Foreign Office at six pounds a week. This was a Cold...

The semi-autobiographical, symbolically-named Scarlet is an unmarried mother in the 1950s, just as FW was. Scarlet's friend Jocelyn, another persona for Weldon (based on her experiences in the Foreign Office ), is the first-person, reminiscent...