Antonia Fraser: 17 books
Must You Go?
My Life with Harold Pinter
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2010
A moving testament to one of the literary world's most celebrated marriages: that of the greatest playwright of our age, Harold Pinter, and the beautiful and famous prize-winning biographer Antonia Fraser.
In this exquisite memoir, Antonia Fraser recounts the life she shared with the internationally...
Jemima Shore at the Sunny Grave
And Other Stories
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2014
Internationally bestselling author Antonia Fraser finds murder and mayhem in the most incongruous places, from sunny island paradises to the opera, in these nine superb short stores—four featuring Jemima Shore, investigative reporter.
Rescued from freezing London by an assignment in the West...
by Antonia Fraser
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2014
“A book that will leave few readers unmoved.”–San Francisco Chronicle
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...
Perilous Question
Reform or Revolution? Britain on the Brink, 1832
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2013
Antonia Fraser's Perilous Question is a dazzling re-creation of the tempestuous two-year period in Britain's history leading up to the passing of the Great Reform Bill in 1832, a narrative which at times reads like a political thriller.
The era, beginning with the accession of William IV, is...
by Antonia Fraser
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2007
The national-bestselling author of Mary Queen of Scots delivers a masterful biography of the Puritan rebel Oliver Cromwell: “Rich and extraordinary” (The New York Times).
In Cromwell, award-winning biographer Antonia Fraser tells of one of England’s most celebrated and controversial figures,...
Love and Louis XIV
The Women in the Life of the Sun King
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2008
Louis XIV, the highly-feted “Sun King”, was renowned for his political and cultural influence and for raising France to a new level of prominence in seventeenth-century Europe. And yet, as Antonia Fraser keenly describes, he was equally legendary in the domestic sphere. Indeed, a panoply of women—his...
The Weaker Vessel
Women's Lot in Seventeenth-Century England
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2014
The renowned historian and biographer Lady Antonia Fraser, author of Marie Antoinette, investigates the lot of women in seventeenth-century England. Drawing on period diaries, letters, and other papers, Fraser sketches portraits of a variety of women, both highborn and humble, during the tumultuous...
by Antonia Fraser
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2014
The New York Times bestselling history of the legendary six wives of Henry VIII--from the acclaimed author of Marie Antoinette. Under Antonia Fraser's intent scrutiny, Catherine of Aragon emerges as a scholar-queen who steadfastly refused to grant a divorce to her royal husband; Anne Boleyn is absolved...
Marie Antoinette
The Journey
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2002
France's iconic queen, Marie Antoinette, wrongly accused of uttering the infamous "Let them eat cake," was alternately revered and reviled during her lifetime. For centuries since, she has been the object of debate, speculation, and the fascination so often accorded illustrious figures in...
Gunpowder Plots
A Celebration of 400 Years of Bonfire Night
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2005
400 years ago this November the most ambitious and extraordinary plot ever conceived in this country came close to success: the attempt by Guy Fawkes and his fellow conspirators to destroy in a single, annihilating blast the entire British ruling class and royal family.
This book draws on the...
My History
A Memoir of Growing Up
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2015
The acclaimed New York Times bestselling author shares vivid memories of her childhood and recalls the experiences that set her on the path to a writing life.
Ever since she received Our Island Story by H. E. Marshall as a Christmas present in 1936, Antonia Fraser's deep love of...
The King and the Catholics
England, Ireland, and the Fight for Religious Freedom, 1780-1829
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2018
From beloved historian Antonia Fraser comes the dramatic story of how Catholics in the United Kingdom won back their rights after two centuries of official discrimination.
In the summer of 1780, mob violence swept through London. Nearly one thousand people were killed, looting was widespread,...
Faith and Treason
The Story of the Gunpowder Plot
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2014
In England, November 5 is Guy Fawkes Day, when fireworks displays commemorate the shocking moment in 1605 when government authorities uncovered a secret plan to blow up the House of Parliament--and King James I along with it. A group of English Catholics, seeking to unseat the king and reintroduce...
by Antonia Fraser
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2014
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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