Foreign Office

During these years, beginning in the Second World War, she worked in the Ministry of Information (where she became head of the American section), the Committee of Ministers for Reconstruction (from spring 1941), the Ministry...

AW worked in the Political Intelligence Department (French Section) of the Foreign Office .

AW took sick leave from her intelligence job with the Foreign Office ; she never went back.

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...

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...

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...