Edith O'Shaughnessy

Her parents' marriage was a difficult one, due in part to her father's frequent absences on scientific and ornithological research trips and his womanizing.

Diplomatic Days covers the fall of the long regime headed by Porfirio Diaz and the revolution which brought the "democratic" government of Francisco Madero to power.

A Diplomat's Wife in Mexico covers events in 1913 and 1914, when Madero was overthrown in a violent coup (the "Ten Tragic Days") by Victoriano Huerta on February 13, 1913, and murdered by the new regime.

"[9] A third book, Intimate Pages of Mexican History,[10] a "Social Life in Mexico City Since the Brief and Tragic Glory of Maximilian and Carlota" was published in 1920.

She also wrote a biography of Marie-Adélaïde, the Grand Duchess of Luxembourg, and a novel, Viennese Medley, later made into a film The Greater Glory, which tells the story of former aristocrats in Vienna after the end of the First World War and the dissolution of the Austro-Hungarian Empire.