Foreign Office

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...

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...

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 .

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...

This was three months after the annulment of AW 's first marriage came through. Eric had a job with the Foreign Office . They were married for five years, successfully, without any sexual...

Mary Sanders (later AB ) married Owen O'Malley (a member of the British Foreign Office and as he put it himself an autocthonous Irishman, later knighted) at St Mark's Church...

He had been offered either Teheran or Peking (now Beijing). He resigned from his Foreign Office employment in the summer of 1929 in favour of the editorship of the London Evening Standard. Later...

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...

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?)...

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 in 1938.