Antonia Fraser
Antonia Fraser
Lady Antonia Margaret Caroline Fraser, DBE, née Pakenham, is a British author of history, novels, biographies and detective fiction. She is the widow of the 2005 Nobel Laureate in Literature, Harold Pinter, and prior to his death was also known as Antonia Pinter...
NationalityBritish
ProfessionAuthor
Date of Birth27 August 1932
long historical gaps
It can be a long gap between the emergence of fully researched historical biographies.
writing self-confidence maine
Her imperturbable self-confidence (Duchesse de Maine) caused Madame de Stael to write that the Duchesse believed in herself the same way she believed in God, without explanation or discussion.
justice almighty-god persons
Of course there's no such thing as a totally objective person, except Almighty God, if she exists.
firsts privilege never-forget
As the Dauphine stepped out of her carriage on to the ceremonial carpet that had been laid down, it was the Duc de Choiseul who was given the privilege of the first salute. Presented with the Duc by Prince Starhemberg, Marie Antoinette exclaimed: 'I shall never forget that you are responsible for my happiness!
eye self order
[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.
forgotten heard marie
I have seen all, I have heard all, I have forgotten all. marie antoinette
mother oxford doctors
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.
writing ideas tomorrow
I have no plans for a future Jemima Shore mystery, but would write one tomorrow if a good idea came to me.
writing thinking order
I think crime writing is my link with trying to preserve a sort of order.
heart writing biographies
I realize that I had always in my heart of hearts planned to write a biography of Marie Antoinette.
hate book hair
I hate the only one of my book jackets when I was made up professionally, my hair made into a smooth bell.
thinking valuable deals
I think there has been a great deal of valuable revisionism in women's history.
exercise zest swim
Normally I make myself swim, do exercises. For zest I like going to the cinema.
war thinking people
I think there's a tremendous split between people who've been through a war and people who haven't.