My Vice-Regal Life

Offers 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 served as Australia's 19th Governor-General from 1977 to 1982.