Foreign Office

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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 Antonia White
AW worked in the Political Intelligence Department (French Section) of the Foreign Office .
Dunn, Jane. Antonia White: A Life. Jonathan Cape.
275, 278
Who Was Who. A. and C. Black.
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.
278
Chitty, Susan. Now To My Mother. Weidenfeld and Nicholson.
140
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...
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...

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