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	Antonia Fraser - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		In 1956, Lady Antonia married Sir Hugh Fraser, a Roman Catholic MP when she found out she was pregnant with his child.
		Fraser and Pinter married in 1980, when Pinter and Merchant's divorce was finalized, and they lived in Holland Park, west London.
		One of Lady Antonia's daughters, Flora Fraser, is an historical biographer.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Lady_Antonia_Fraser (500 words)

	Encyclopedia: Antonia Fraser
		Fraser also weaves a richly detailed account of Marie Antoinette¹s other, more poignant journey: from an ill-educated and unprepared girl who sought refuge in pleasure to a courageous woman who defied her enemies at her trial and went to the guillotine with her head held high.
		Fraser's sizable new portrait avoids the saccharine romance of Evelyne Lever's recent Marie Antoinette, balancing empathy for the pleasure-loving queen with an awareness of the inequalities that fed revolution after all, Marie herself was fully conscious of them.
		Fraser has a high profile in the British media, both for her refreshingly unpretentious opinions and as a member of the "Literary Longfords," an aristocratic family that boasts eight writers in three generations.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Antonia-Fraser (430 words)

	Antonia Fraser: biography and encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-06)
		The Lady Antonia Fraser (born August 27, 1932) is a British (The people of Great Britain) author of history and novels, best known for writing biographies.
		In 1956 Lady Antonia married Hugh Fraser, MP (A member of the military police who polices soldiers and guards prisoners) when she found out she was pregnant with his child.
		A Roman Catholic (The Christian Church based in the Vatican and presided over by a pope and an episcopal hierarchy), she caused a public scandal in 1977 by leaving her husband for playwright Harold Pinter (English dramatist whose plays are characterized by silences and the use of inaction (born in 1930)).
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/a/an/antonia_fraser.htm (622 words)

	Seattle Arts & Lectures - Antonia Fraser
		Fraser had been enthralled by the doomed Queen since childhood, when she acted out scenes from Mary's life—particularly the famous execution—for her seven younger siblings (three of whom also went on to become authors, as did some of Fraser's own children).
		Fraser has been praised for the thoroughness of her research, the liveliness of her re-creation of history, and for humanizing her subjects, even as she renders judgments.
		Fraser has appeared as a broadcaster, lecturer, and panelist on BBC's "My Word." Her recent works are more panoramic in scope, covering multiple rather than single subjects, as in The Warrior Queens (1988), a study of women who led their people into battle, and The Wives of Henry VIII (1992).
	www.lectures.org /fraser.html (1214 words)

	EducationGuardian.co.uk \| Arts & Humanities \| Profile: Antonia Fraser
		Antonia Pakenham - pronounced Packenham not Paikenham - was born in London in 1932, the first of eight children of Frank Pakenham, later Lord Longford, and Elizabeth Harman, who as Elizabeth Longford went on to write several acclaimed historical biographies herself.
		Fraser, twice a Booker judge, says she is not clamouring for a crime novel to be shortlisted for the prize.
		Fraser says the fact that she wasn't taught history at the Dragon School was, in retrospect, a lucky break.
	education.guardian.co.uk /higher/artsandhumanities/story/0,12241,779817,00.html (3727 words)

	French Culture \| books \| history \| Antonia Fraser: Marie Antoinette (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-06)
		But the story of her journey begun as a fourteen-year-old sent from Vienna to marry the future Louis XVI to her courageous defense before she was sent to the guillotine reveals a woman of greater complexity and character than we have previously understood.
		In Antonia Fraser's new biography, we stand beside Marie Antoinette and witness the drama of her life as she becomes a scapegoat of the Ancien Regime.
		Antonia Fraser is married to Harold Pinter and lives in London.
	www.frenchculture.org /books/release/history/fraserantoinette.html (647 words)

	Alibris: Antonia Fraser
		Fraser's definitive biography excites compassion and regard for all aspects of her subject, immersing the reader not only in the coming-of-age of a graceful woman, but also in the...
		From bestselling biographer and historian Antonia Fraser comes a study of the legend of the Warrior Queens--from the first century A.D. Briton, Boudica, to the 20th century triumvirate of Indira Gandhi, Golda Meir, and Margaret Thatcher.
		Antonia Fraser has researched the plot by Roman Catholic extremists to topple the government of James I of England, and she outlines the parallels between the religious extremists of the Jacobean era and the fanatics of the 20th century.
	www.alibris.com /search/books/author/Fraser,Antonia (960 words)

	BookkooB : Mary Queen of Scots - Antonia Fraser : Compare Book Prices
		Antonia Fraser really brings her subject to life, truly a 3 dimensional portrait painted in words.
		I also got the impression that Antonia Fraser liked her subject, that she too had at some time felt distressed that this woman met such a horrible end, the culmination of a life spent largely in captivity.
		Ms Fraser informs the reader so well of the conditions and political atmosphere of this time in history that the pattern of events are put successfully into context.
	www.bookkoob.co.uk /book/038531129X.htm (1145 words)

	Books at Book Clubs \| Marie Antoinette by Antonia Fraser
		In this lavishly illustrated biography, best-selling author Antonia Fraser portrays a woman whose journey from palace to guillotine was doomed by her innocence and the manipulations of the ancien régime.
		Fraser weaves a richly detailed account of Marie Antoinette’s journey from an innocent, unsophisticated young girl into a magnificently courageous woman who, in the last days of the ancien régime, defied her enemies at her trial with consummate intelligence, arousing the admiration of even the most hostile revolutionaries.
		Antonia Fraser is the author of Mary Queen of Scots, The Wives of Henry VIII, and Faith and Treason, among other international bestsellers.
	www.bookclubs.ca /catalog/display.pperl?0385257759 (336 words)

	Faith and Treason: The Story of the Gunpowder Plot by Antonia Fraser :: The Compulsive Reader :: A Haven for Book Lovers
		Fraser presents an eloquent and easy to read piece of work, but her choice of vehicle for the issues she raises is the wrong one.
		Fraser attests that this "dark and doubtful letter" was a fake and that the smell of entrapment wafted as far as the highest echelons of the Jacobean government (143).
		Fraser neither glorifies nor fully vilifies the plotters; they are only subsidiary to her story, describing them as terrorists who believed they were fighting for a holy cause (not unlike a situation we have today).
	www.compulsivereader.com /html/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=135&mode=thread&order=0&thold=0 (1298 words)

	Antonia Fraser (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-06)
		Based on the tragic life of Mary Stuart, whose father died 6 days after she was born and left her the throne, the book was lauded for its careful documentation, picturesque details, and lively readability.
		In the book, Fraser gives the image of women in the lives of heiresses and dairy maids, holy women and prostitutes, criminals and educators, widows and witches, midwives and mothers, businesswomen, ladies of the court, courtesans, and heroines.
		Fraser’s latest work is called Faith and Treason: The Story of the Gunpowder Plot.
	www.yudev.com /mfo/britlit/fraser_antonia.htm (320 words)

	Writer accused of plagiarising Antonia Fraser
		AN award-winning author was accused yesterday of "plagiarising" Lady Antonia Fraser in a new biography of Mary Queen of Scots.
		Lady Antonia, the wife of Harold Pinter, said she had found some "disquieting similarities of phraseology as well as detail" between her own Mary Queen of Scots, which was first published in 1969, and the new biography.
		Lady Antonia learned of the alleged similarities between the texts when she was approached by The Scotsman newspaper and asked to compare extracts from the new biography, In My Beginning is My End, with her own writing.
	telegraph.co.uk /htmlContent.jhtml?html=/archive/1999/02/24/nton24.html (860 words)

	Amazon.com: Faith and Treason: Books: Antonia Fraser (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-06)
		Fraser has given an excellent portrayal of what such a persecution was like in the England of King James I. Consider a persecution so wide spread that a unique form of architecture developed with the sole purpose of designing hidden prayer rooms for Catholics to worship in.
		Fraser hints that one of the plotters, Francis Tresham, may have been a government spy, and therefore that Cecil knew of the plot from its inception, but she doesn't carry this idea through to its conclusions.
		What Antonia Fraser does achieve though, is a vivid picture of English (aristocratic) Catholic recusant life at the end of the sixteenth century, with its stately homes riddled with priest-holes, and the brave women who sheltered the hunted priests.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0385471890?v=glance (2439 words)

	Large Print Reviews - Marie Antoinette: The Journey - An Audiobook Review
		As Fraser illustrates in this outstanding account, Marie Antoinette was not the evil temptress or heartless autocrat that she was portrayed as in the French media.
		Fraser is quick to point out Marie Antoinette's many flaws, both in personality and in conduct, such as her lavish spending habits.
		Fraser also follows Marie Antoinette's story through the tumultuous days of the Revolution, the murder of her husband, and imprisonment she endured with her children.
	www.largeprintreviews.com /antoinette.html (964 words)

	Marie Antoinette Book at Shop Ireland
		This book's plus points are the wealth of detail Antonia Fraser presents about court etiquette at Versailles; the way in which minor characters, like the Queen's maid Rosalie Lamorliere, are brought to life, and its excellent epilogue which explores Marie-Antoinette's place in history and the tragedy behind this most public of royal lives.
		This biography is an enjoyable one, and Antonia Fraser has done a good job in partially resurrecting Marie-Antoinette from the "rubbish bin of history" but there's still a long way to go before this unlucky queen's "definitive biography" is written.
		Antonia Fraser treats Marie Antoinette as just a figure from history, to be exploited for financial reasons and nothing else.
	www.shopireland.ie /books/reviews/075381305X/2 (792 words)

	BOOKS: MARIE ANTOINETTE: The Journey, By Antonia Fraser - 9 August 2003
		The central mystery that emerges from Fraser's biography is why the naive and well-meaning Marie Antoinette should have been execrated, then and ever since, as the personification of all that the revolutionaries opposed.
		As the exponent of what Fraser calls "revolutionary justice or what was in effect a show trial, with the verdict predetermined", he is the spiritual ancestor of figures such as Andrei Vyshinsky, who perpetrated Stalin's purge trials, and Roland Freisler, Nazi chief judge of the People's Court.
		Fraser has a long record as an accomplished historical biographer, and this, her latest offering, is generally sympathetic, balanced and honest.
	www.newsweekly.com.au /articles/2003aug09_b1.html (923 words)

	Borders - Store Inventory - Title Detail - Marie Antoinette: The Journey
		Vivid prose and exhaustive research make memorable Fraser's biography of the doomed Austrian Archduchesse Maria Antonia Josepha Joanna, known as Antoine to her family and Marie Antoinette to the ages.
		Fraser dispels some of the more flagrant calumnies directed at the queen, such as her involvement in the affair of the Diamond Necklace, and her purported callous "let them eat cake" statement, which story, Fraser points out, was first told about the Spanish princess who married Louis IV some 100 years earlier.
		Antonia Fraser's lavish and engaging portrait of Marie Antoinette, one of the most recognizable women in European history, excites compassion and regard for all aspects of her subject, immersing the reader not only in the coming-of-age of a graceful woman, but also in the unraveling of an era.
	www.bordersstores.com /search/title_detail.jsp?id=53228579 (444 words)

	New Crime & Mystery Fiction Titles From Phoenix 02 July-Sept (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-06)
		Antonia Fraser's "Warrior Queens" are those women who have both ruled and led in war.
		It examines how Antonia Fraser's heroines have held and wrested the reins of power from their (consistently male) adversaries.
		Antonia Fraser brings to life the many and various women she has encountered in her considerable research: governesses, milkmaids, fishwives, nuns, defenders of castles, courtesans, countesses, witches and widows.
	www.tangled-web.co.uk /crimedigests/digests02/phoenixau02.html (582 words)

	Amazon.com: Mary Queen of Scots: Books: Antonia Fraser (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-06)
		Fraser has a methodical style wherein each sentence is so cram-packed with detail that her books probably improve on their second or third readings.
		Fraser basically styles herself as the defence lawyer that Mary lacked during her Fotheringay trial - the book is one extended apologia for the Queen of Scots, of whom, as a result, a picture emerges that is simply too good to be true.
		I was also struck by Fraser's apparent belief in prophecies by astrologists and the like, again something that does not help believability and furthers the impression that the author is too enmeshed in her subject and her mission to be able write a balanced book about it.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/038531129X?v=glance (4189 words)

	Review of MARIE ANTOINETTE by Antonia Fraser (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-06)
		While she and Louis attempted to build a marriage and have a family, the country was already in ferment.
		Marie was thought of as the outsider—"That Austrian Woman" or extravagant "Madame Deficit"—but as biographer Antonia Fraser reveals, she was a pawn of politicians pushed to excess and kept in the fairy-tale world of Versailles until it was too late.
		Fraser paints a more sympathetic portrait than some and more even-handed than others.
	www.romantictimes.com /bookpage.php?bookid=18487 (144 words)

	Countrybookshop.co.uk - Six Wives of Henry VIII, The
		This is a new edition of Antonia Fraser's biography of Henry VIII's six wives.
		Since 1969, Antonia Fraser has written many acclaimed historical works which have been international bestsellers, including Marie Antoinette, Mary Queen of Scots (James Tait Black Memorial Prize), Cromwell: Our Chief of Men, The Six Wives of Henry VIII and The Gunpowder Plot: Terror and Faith in 1605 (St Louis Literary Award; CWA Non-Fiction Gold Dagger).
		Antonia Fraser was made CBE in 1999, and awarded the Norton Medlicott Medal by the Historical Association in 2000.
	www.countrybookshop.co.uk /books?whatfor=1842126334 (326 words)

	Robin Hood by Antonia Fraser -- Robin Hood Spotlight of the Month
		Griffin House, 1971 [as Antonia Fraser, with illustrations by Rebecca Fraser]
		However, Fraser sets the scene on a snowy Christmas eve and Robin stays in the trees, refusing to reveal his presence.
		Fraser frequently uses the Saxon and Norman racial politics, but not as obnoxoiusly as Gilson's novel does.
	www.boldoutlaw.com /robspot/0804.html (1057 words)

	Marie Antoinette by Antonia Fraser
		Married in mere girlhood -- sent away from her family and home in Austria to serve as "hostage," "ambassador," "womb," "mother," "Queen," and "scapegoat" in Paris -- this essentially lighthearted, privileged but otherwise unremarkable child was thrust into an unparalleled time and place, and was commanded by circumstance to play a significant role in history.
		Fraser's definitive biography excites compassion and regard for all aspects of her subject, immersing the reader not only in the coming-of-age of a graceful woman but also in the unraveling of an era.
		Marie Antoinette: The Journey is an act of respect paid to a woman whose spirit was never defeated by all the sorrows heaped upon it, and whose most extraordinary impulses were thwarted by the extraordinary pressures of her time.
	www.randomhouse.com /catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9780385489485&view=rg (521 words)

	Amazon.com: The Lives of the Kings and Queens of England: Books: Antonia Fraser,Wanda McCaddon (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-06)
		Antonia Fraser does a great job here, outlining the lives and adventures of the Kings and Queens of England, from the time of the Norman conquest.
		Antonia Fraser's 'The Lives of the Kings and Queens of England' has long been one of my favourite books (since my childhood, really), because it has both breadth and brevity simultaneously, a rare feat.
		Lady Fraser's style is evident here, a non-imposing and non-technical style, that is nonetheless satisfying to all but the most rigourous of academic historians.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/1572704330?v=glance (1568 words)

	Wars of the Roses: Sources
		Anthony Cheetham, "The House of Lancaster", in Antonia Fraser, ed., The Lives of the Kings & Queens of England (California, 1998).
		Anthony Cheetham, "The House of York", in Antonia Fraser, ed., The Lives of the Kings & Queens of England (California, 1998).
		Neville Williams, "The Tudors", in Antonia Fraser, ed., The Lives of the Kings & Queens of England (California, 1998).
	www.warsoftheroses.com /sources.cfm (234 words)

	Anchor Catalog \| Warrior Queens by Antonia Fraser
		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.
		"Antonia Fraser's The Warrior Queens is an intelligent and artful study of women rulers who commanded in battle....
		Fraser at once clarifies history and suggests the many ways that myths betray history....
	www.randomhouse.com /anchor/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9780679728160 (294 words)

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