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Fraser, Lady Antonia was born on August 27, 1932 in London. Daughter of Francis Aungier and Elizabeth (Harman) Pakenham.
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Author of Marie Antoinette She was the quintessential queen: statuesque, regal, dazzlingly beautiful. Her royal birth gave her claim to the thrones of two nations; her marriage to the young French dauphin promised to place a third glorious crown on her noble head. Instead, Mary Stuart became the victim of her own impulsive heart, scandalizing her world with a foolish passion that would lead to abduction, rape and even murder. Betrayed by those she most trusted, she would be lured into a deadly game of power, only to lose to her envious and unforgiving cousin, Elizabeth I. Here is her story, a queen who lost a throne for love, a monarch pampered and adored even as she was led to her beheading, the unforgettable woman who became a legend for all time.
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In Cromwell, award-winning biographer Antonia Fraser tells of one of England's most celebrated and controversial figures, often misunderstood and demonized as a puritanical zealot. Oliver Cromwell rose from humble beginnings to spearhead the rebellion against King Charles I, who was beheaded in 1649, and led his soldiers into the last battle against the Royalists and King Charles II at Worcester, ending the civil war in 1651. Fraser shows how England's prestige and prosperity grew under Cromwell, reversing the decline it had suffered since Queen Elizabeth I's death.
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When King James VI of Scotland inherited the throne of England in 1603 he had ruled his native land almost as long as had Queen Elizabeth. He showed both vision and determination in pursuing his major political goals: a united Britain, and a foreign policy based on peace rather than bellicose chauvinism. Of course, there was a darker side: in the face of growing Parliamentary opposition, he would need all his celebrated wisdom to prevent open conflict. This book is a sympathetic portrait of a worthy first king of Great Britain.
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(In this panoramic work of history, Lady Antonia Fraser lo...)
In this panoramic work of history, Lady Antonia Fraser looks at women who led armies and empires: Cleopatra, Isabella of Spain, Jinga Mbandi, Margaret Thatcher, and Indira Gandhi, among others.
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With Antionia Fraser's abridged biography at its core, this book chronicles the life and times of Charles II. It paints a picture of a glorious but troubled Restoration period, which followed Oliver Cromwell's Puritan Commonwealth, presenting the world in which the king moved: the dress, the manners, the morals, the entertainment and the society.
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The Lives of the Kings and Queens of England is the glorious pageant of almost one thousand years of England's history told through the lives and deeds (and misdeeds) of her sovereigns. Here, in a sweep of short, colorful, brilliantly telling episodes, are the stories of the many monarchs who span ten centuries and ten great dynasties from the House of Normandy in 1066 to the House of Windsor today.
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(A very personal anthology, Antonia Fraser has chosen the ...)
A very personal anthology, Antonia Fraser has chosen the letters for their emotional power, or state of love expressed. The categories include Passions, Ecstasies, Fears and Worries, Declarations and Farewells. The anthology includes both the obvious (Byron, Keats, Abelard and Heloise) and the anonymous (a Japanese wife whose husband is in battle, a soldier in the trenches).
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Letters by Chopin, Lucrezia Borgia, Balzac, Zelda Fitzgerald, Napoleon, Goethe, Henri III, Byron, John Keats, John Ruskin, Marcel Proust, etc. 8vo pp. 192 ril tela, sovrac (cloth, DJ)
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In this delightful collection, forty acclaimed writers explain what first made them interested in literature, what inspired them to read, and what makes them continue to do so. First published in 1992 in hardback only, original contributors include Margaret Atwood, J. G. Ballard, Melvyn Bragg, A. S. Byatt, Catherine Cookson, Carol Ann Duffy, Germaine Greer, Alan Hollinghurst, Doris Lessing, Candia McWilliam, Edna O'Brien, Ruth Rendell, Tom Stoppard, Sue Townsend, and Jeanette Winterson. The new edition will include essays from ten new writers.
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"Divorced, beheaded, died; divorced, beheaded, survived.' So the six wives of Henry VIII - Catherine of Aragon, Anne Boleyn, Jane Seymour, Anna of Cleves, Katherine Howard and Catherine Parr - have become defined in a popular sense not so much by their lives as by the way these lives ended. In the same way their characters are popularly portrayed as female stereotypes: the Betrayed Wife, the Temptress, the Good Woman, the Ugly Sister, the Bad Girl and, finally, the Mother Figure. But, as Antonia Fraser brilliantly and conclusively proves, they were rich and feisty characters. They may have been victims of Henry's obsession with a male heir, but they were not willing victims. On the contrary, they exhibited remarkable degrees of spirit and defiance of which women living now might still be proud. They displayed considerable strength and intelligence at a time when their sex supposedly possessed little of either. Antonia Fraser deals with each woman in turn with sympathy - the sympathy they deserve for having had the unenviable fate of being Henry's wife. Inevitably there was great rivalry between them, so high were the stakes in the great game of marrying the King of England. There was jealousy too - the desperate jealousy of Queens who found themselves abandoned, but also the sexual jealousy of the King who discovered himself betrayed. The story Antonia Fraser tells is romantic and cruel, funny and sad, dramatic and enthralling. This is historical biography at its best. "An intoxicating mixture of sex, sentiment and court intrigue...Fraser has the knack...of making history not merely readable but irresistible" Sunday Times
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(In this panoramic work of history, Lady Antonia Fraser lo...)
In this panoramic work of history, Lady Antonia Fraser looks at women who led armies and empires: Cleopatra, Isabella of Spain, Jinga Mbandi, Margaret Thatcher, and Indira Gandhi, among others.
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Reader's Digest authorized condensed large-type editions of Mary Queen of Scots by Antonia Fraser and Yankee From Olympus: Justice Holmes and His Family by Catherine Drinker Bowen.
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(1969 International Collector's Library hardcover, Antonia...)
1969 International Collector's Library hardcover, Antonia Fraser (Marie Antoinette: The Journey). She was the quintessential queen: statuesque, regal, dazzlingly beautiful. Her royal birth gave her claim to the thrones of two nations; her marriage to the young French dauphin promised to place a third glorious crown on her noble head. But her passion would lead to her own demise.
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Fraser, Lady Antonia was born on August 27, 1932 in London. Daughter of Francis Aungier and Elizabeth (Harman) Pakenham.
Bachelor, Oxford University, 1953. Master of Arts, Oxford University. Doctor of Literature (honorary), University Hull, 1986.
Doctor of Literature (honorary), University Sussex, 1990. Doctor of Literature (honorary), University Nottingham, 1993. Doctor of Literature (honorary), St. Andrew's College, 1994.
(In this panoramic work of history, Lady Antonia Fraser lo...)
(In this panoramic work of history, Lady Antonia Fraser lo...)
(The Lives of the Kings and Queens of England is the glori...)
( In Cromwell, award-winning biographer Antonia Fraser te...)
(Reader's Digest authorized condensed large-type editions ...)
(In this delightful collection, forty acclaimed writers ex...)
(Letters by Chopin, Lucrezia Borgia, Balzac, Zelda Fitzger...)
(When King James VI of Scotland inherited the throne of En...)
(Hardcover: 256 pages Publisher: Spring Books (1972) Lan...)
(A very personal anthology, Antonia Fraser has chosen the ...)
(With Antionia Fraser's abridged biography at its core, th...)
(Capturing all the romance of a traditional tale, this boo...)
(Author of Marie Antoinette She was the quintessential qu...)
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(Love letters involving passions, ecstasies and total love...)
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Author: King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table, 1954, Robin Hood, 1957, Dolls, 1963, A History of Toys, 1966, Mary, Queen of Scots, 1969 (James Tait Black Memorial prize for biography 1969), Cromwell, the Lord Protector, 1973, King James VI of Scotland, I of England, 1974, Royal Charles: Charles II and the Restoration, 1979, The Weaker Vessel: Woman's Lot in Seventeenth-Century England, 1984 (Wolfson History award 1984, Prix Caumont-La Force 1985), The Warrior Queens, 1988, The Wives of Henry VIII, 1992, Love Without Reason, 1993. (series) "Jemima Shore" Mystery series, since 1977. (radio plays) On the Battlements, 1975, The Heroine, 1976, Penelope, 1976.
(television plays) Charades, 1977, Mister Clay, Mister Clay, 1985. Editor: The Lives of the Kings and Queens of England, 1975, Scottish Love Poems: A Personal Anthology, 1975, Love Letters: An Anthology, 1976, Heroes and Heroines, 1980, Mary, Queen of Scots: An Anthology of Poetry, 1981, Oxford and Oxfordshire in Verse, 1982, Love Letters: An Illustrated Anthology, 1989, The Pleasure of Reading, 1992. Translator: Jean Monsterleet's Martyrs in China, 1956, Dior by Dior: The Autobiography of Christian Dior, 1957.
General editor: "Kings and Queens of England" series.
Member English Poets, Playwrights, Editors, Essayists and Novelists association (vice president since 1990), Society of Authors (chairman 1974-1975), Crimewriters Association (vice chairman 1984, chairman 1985-1986).
Married Hugh Fraser, 1956 (divorced 1977). Children: Rebecca, Flora, Benjamin, Natasha, Damian, Orlando. Married Harold Pinter, 1980.