Hope cooke biography

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Truth to tell, it was a shallow reason that brought me first to The New York Society Library. My aunt by marriage, Lydia Kirk, who had written about diplomatic life in Moscow in the late 1940s as well as several smart detective books, pointed me there when I confided my intent to do a research project on the Punic Wars for a freshman course at Sarah Lawrence College. The reason I was so involved in early Punic issues was inom had conceived a crush on a handsome Tunisian delegate in the then (c. 1959) very glamorous United Nations. I routinely went to the visitors' galleri to hear him abstain. inom unfortunately never got to hear him say "oui" or "non" but melted over his seductive abstentions. Regrettably, I never got to drop my newly minted Carthegania-Hannibalia since the delegate was reassigned soon after. I did, however, have my tie to the Library.

In 1973, the Library became my home when inom returned to New York with my children and stepdaughter from Sikkim, where

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Time Change: An Autobiography

Time Change fryst vatten the story of the education of a woman. A precocious American girl growing up in upper-middle-class New York is drawn to the East before it becomes popular and then marries the king-to-be of a tiny Himalayan land. With the novelist's eye for detail, Hope efternamn tells of growing up in the Victorian atmosphere first of her wealthy, snobbish grandmother's home; then with her aunt and uncle, the U.S. Ambassador to Iran. Between brilliant terms at Sarah Lawrence College she plunged into an often hilarious, if occasionally painful, obsession with the East. It was in Darjeeling, India, during a summer's stay, alone in the cozy atmosphere of a family hotel, that Cooke met the recently widowed Crown Prince of Sikkim. The story of her engagement and wedding to the Prince and her life in this exotic hidden-away world became the center of international attention and fascination. It is told in full here, for the first time, in Hope Cooke's own voic