My vice-regal life : diaries 1978 to 1982 / Lady Anna Cowen.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Cowen, Anna, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Governors general's spouses--Australia--Diaries.

Governors general's spouses.

Australia--Politics and government--20th century.

Australia.

Australia--Social life and customs--20th century.

Cowen, Anna--Diaries.

Cowen, Anna.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (349 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Melbourne: Miegunyah Press Digital, 2017.

Summary:

Sunday, 8 January 1978 I have decided to keep a diary during Zelman's term of office as Governor-General. I am pleased, because I forget so much and the re-reading of a sentence brings whole occasions, scenes, and otherwise forgotten things, vividly back to mind... And so begins an extraordinary record of the life of a Governor-General's wife. Lady Anna Cowen's edited diaries capture the day-to-day life—the wardrobe fittings, the running of an enormous household—as well as the pomp and circumstance of vice-regal duties during the term Sir Zelman Cowen, the 'healing Governor-General', served after the dismissal by Sir John Kerr of the Whitlam government.

Contents:

Intro; Title; Copyright; Contents; Introduction; 1978; 1979; 1980; 1981; 1982; Afterword; Abbreviations; Index; Pic

Notes:

Includes index.

ISBN:

9780522871289

0522871283