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
writing cold ifs
If I write that it was a cold day, you can be sure I know it was a cold day because Pepys told us.
writing bedtime prison
That is my major concern: writers who are in prison for writing.
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.
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.
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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.
although british-author diana help mention princess thinking
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.
british-author farthest mary subject
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!
british-author enjoyed imagination mysteries relief
I enjoyed writing mysteries out of my imagination as a relief from all that research, and also because I could write them while traveling.