Antonia Fraser
Author
1932-08-27
Lady Antonia Fraser is an English author, historian, and biographer known for books on British history and notable historical figures. Her works include biographies of Mary, Queen of Scots and Oliver Cromwell.
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Darnley, who, like Banquo's ghost, seemed to play a much more effective part in Scottish politics once he was dead than when he was alive.
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[In 16th century European society] Marriage was the triumphal arch through which women, almost without exception, had to pass in order to reach the public eye. And after marriage followed, in theory, the total self-abnegation of the woman.
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[In 16th century European society] Marriage was the triumphal arch through which women, almost without exception, had to pass in order to reach the public eye. And after marriage followed, in theory, the total self-abnegation of the woman.
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Darnley, who, like Banquo's ghost, seemed to play a much more effective part in Scottish politics once he was dead than when he was alive.
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Mary Queen of Scots was my first love, and that is always something special.
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My advantage as a woman and a human being has been in having a mother who believed strongly in women's education. She was an early undergraduate at Oxford, and her own mother was a doctor.
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Normally I make myself swim, do exercises. For zest I like going to the cinema.
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