Geraldine Roberts: "the Rebel & the Peacemaker" @ Southwold Literary Festival

Geraldine Roberts is an author and a historian specialising in the Regency era.

Her work centres on the achievements of real women in this period, and the dynamics within their marriages.

She is the author of "The Angel and the Cad", which published in 2015.When it came to Charles and Mary Bagot, the gossips of Regency England had more than their fill.

The marriage, initially the toast of high society, was one marked with scandal & adultery.

And when rumours of a particularly salacious affair broke through London, the couple were banished to the New World.

Having sailed across the ocean, Charles and Mary settled into their new home among the mudflows of Washington.

It was here that they would serve their penance as the first British Ambassadors to America, at a pivotal moment in the new nation's history.

But against the odds &, in spite of their misfortune, the Bagots would emerge as the leading diplomats of their day.

Their innate gift for politics, culture & social affairs was a tonic to the Anglo-American tensions and would lay the groundwork for modern global diplomacy.

Their trailblazing work, first in the United States & then later in Russia and Canada that would forever change the power dynamics on the world stage.

Meticulously researched, "The Rebel and The Peacemaker" is the untold story of romance, scandal and the art of diplomacy.Unreserved seating.