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
book childhood france
The concentration in my book on Marie Antoinette's childhood and on her family influences. It is surprising how some books actually start with her arrival in France!
book reading squares
I am re-reading Henry James as a change from history. I began with Daisy Miller, and I've just finished Washington Square. What a brilliant, painful book.
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.
book hands people
People in my books tend to get their just deserts, even if not at the hands of the police.
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The clue to book jacket photography is to look friendly and approachable, but not too glamorous.
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As the seventh wife of Henry VIII I hope I would have managed to do the old monster in-my cooking comes to mind, as I am a hopeless cook.
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One couldn't help thinking of Princess Diana when writing some passages, although I don't make a mention in the text, which would be anachronistic.
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I don't like it, but this afternoon I've told myself I am going to go and get a dress.
british-author people
We are privileged. There are poor people out there. We must to do something to make them privileged.
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After Mary Queen of Scots, I turned to the farthest subject possible: Cromwell.
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I think mine is the fullest and most plausible account of what went on in Marie Antoinette's life.
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King Juan Carlos would be worthy of a full biography as a major player in his country's history. Alas, my Spanish is not good enough to offer myself!
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I enjoyed writing mysteries out of my imagination as a relief from all that research, and also because I could write them while traveling.
british-author exceptions foreign matters others reading time waste
Why waste time instructing others when you could be reading the manuscripts yourself? The only exceptions are matters of foreign language.