Diplomatic Days
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Who it's for
A good fit for
- Readers interested in early twentieth-century Mexican history and diplomatic life
- Readers who enjoy women's memoirs and personal observational narrative
- Casual readers who want to experience the atmosphere of the era through free public-domain e-resources
- Those who need background material on diplomatic history for further reading
Not a good fit for
- Academic researchers expecting systematic, rigorous historiographical argument
- Readers looking for fast-paced plots or fiction
- Readers sensitive to the personal standpoint and era biases in memoirs
Reading tips
- Learn the general historical background of Mexico around the revolution before reading the main text for easier comprehension
- Mark people and events as you read, and sort out the timeline after finishing
- Read the author's personal observations against later historical accounts, maintaining a critical perspective
About the publisher
Project Gutenberg is a digital publishing project focused on public-domain ebooks. Its publishing direction centers on classic literary works whose copyright has expired, covering genres such as poetry, drama, fiction, and epic. Representative books include Lyrical Ballads by Wordsworth and Coleridge, Proust's Du côté de chez Swann, Shakespeare's Macbeth and The Complete Works of William Shakespeare, Homer's The Iliad, Dante's La Divina Comèdia: Purgatòri, Cervantes's The History of Don Quixote, Volume 2, and Grahame's The Wind in the Willows. Its author resources consist mainly of classic Western writers such as Wordsworth, Proust, Shakespeare, Homer, Dante, Cervantes, Grahame, and Tolstoy. Its publishing feature is the provision of freely accessible ebooks in EPUB and Kindle formats; it is not a traditional publisher, and publicly available information is limited.
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About the author
Edith O‘Shaughnessy (1870–1939) was an American writer. She lived in Mexico with her husband, a diplomat, and drew on that experience to write Diplomatic Days, also known in Chinese as The Diplomat‘s Wife in Mexico. The book records, from a first-hand perspective, everyday life and social activities within diplomatic circles, offering readers direct observations of Mexico’s diplomatic environment and social scene at the time. Her writing is documentary and personal in emphasis, plain in tone, and concerned with concrete scenes and personal interactions rather than abstract argument. Apart from this representative work, only one of her works is held in the collection, and public information about her life, education, and other writings is limited. Her name remains closely associated with this documentary account written from the position of a diplomat’s wife, whose value lies chiefly in preserving a private record of diplomatic life in a particular period.
