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Characters | Fay Weldon | 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... |
Employer | Muriel Spark | 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
. Stannard, Martin. Muriel Spark. The Biography. Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 2009. 71 |
Employer | Mary Agnes Hamilton | 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... |
Employer | Antonia White | AW
worked in the Political Intelligence Department
(French Section) of the Foreign Office
. Dunn, Jane. Antonia White: A Life. Jonathan Cape, 1998. 275, 278 Who Was Who. A. and C. Black, 1897–2024, Many volumes. |
Employer | Antonia White | AW
took sick leave from her intelligence job with the Foreign Office
; she never went back. Dunn, Jane. Antonia White: A Life. Jonathan Cape, 1998. 278 Chitty, Susan. Now To My Mother. Weidenfeld and Nicholson, 1985. 140 |
Employer | Fay Weldon | 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... |
Employer | Joanna Trollope | 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. Joanna Trollope. The official website of Joanna Trollope OBE. http://joannatrollope.com/. FAQs |
Employer | Muriel Spark | MS
began on a top-secret job: writing anti-Nazi propaganda for MI6
, the Political Intelligence Department
of the British Foreign Office
. Stannard, Martin. Muriel Spark. The Biography. Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 2009. 61 Spark, Muriel. Curriculum Vitae: Autobiography. Constable, 1992. 148 Baldwin, Dean, editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 139. Gale Research, 1994. 139: 228 |
Family and Intimate relationships | Ann Bridge | Mary Sanders (later AB
) married Owen O'Malley
(a member of the British Foreign Office
and as he put it himself an autocthonous Irishman, “The Times Digital Archive 1785-2007”. Thompson Gale: The Times Digital Archive. (17 April 1974): 16 |
Family and Intimate relationships | Vita Sackville-West | He had been offered either Teheran or Peking (now Beijing). Glendinning, Victoria. Vita. Penguin, 1984. 145 |
Family and Intimate relationships | Ann Bridge | In 1928 Owen O'Malley
, with other members of the foreign service, was accused of speculating in francs: what became known as the francs case. His Times obituary suggested that he would have been... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Antonia White | This was three months after the annulment of AW
's first marriage came through. Eric had a job with the Foreign Office
. Dunn, Jane. Antonia White: A Life. Jonathan Cape, 1998. 94-5 Vaux, Anna. “Biscuits. Oh good!”. London Review of Books, 27 May 1999, pp. 32-4. 32 |
Literary responses | Ann Bridge | A British Foreign Office
official warned that what he called the uniform unpleasantness of the Spanish characters (which was news to her: was he responding to the fact that people behave badly in extreme circumstances?)... |
names | Ann Bridge |
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Residence | Ann Bridge | After AB
's husband retired from the Foreign Office
they settled, not at first in England but in Ireland: at Rockfleet Castle in Mayo, which they had bought as only a Regency ruin Bridge, Ann. Facts and Fictions. Chatto and Windus, 1968. 71 |
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