Honorable Exiles: A Chilean Woman in the Twentieth Century

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This memoir offers a glimpse of the life of Lillian Lorca de Tagle, born into a priviledged yet circumscribed world as the daughter of a wealthy Chilean diplomat. Her biography offers details of how she became a translator and journalist at a time when few women of her class held jobs. Ordered into exile in the United States by her disapproving mother, she became a successful reporter, translator and editor, while raising two daughters as a single working mother. She describes how her upbringing in various European capitals prepared her for a life of continual change, remembering restrictions that upper class Chilean society placed on women and how these ultimately propelled her into a career in the United States that included editorship at Americas magazine, and work for the State Department.