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Published
Miegunyah Press, July 2017
ISBN
9780522871272
Format
Hardcover, 361 pages
Dimensions
24.3cm × 16.4cm × 3.7cm

My Vice-Regal Life Lady Cowen's Diaries 1978 to 1982 by

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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.

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