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Lady Caroline Lamb - A Free Spirit by Antonia Fraser
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Category: Biography & Memoir
The vivid and dramatic life of Lady Caroline Lamb, whose scandalous love affair with Lord Byron overshadowed her own creativity and desire to break free from society's constraints. From the outset, Caroline Lamb had a rebellious nature. From childhood she grew increasingly troublesome, experimenting ...Show more
Love and Louis XIV by Antonia Fraser
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Category: Popular History | Reading Level: very good
Mistresses and wives, mothers and daughters - Antonia Fraser brilliantly explores the relationships which existed between The Sun King and the women in his life. This includes not only Louis XIV's mistresses, principally Louise de La Valliere, Athenais de Montespan, and the puritanical Madame de Mainten ...Show more
Marie Antoinette : The Journey by Antonia Fraser
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Category: Popular History | Reading Level: very good
'Drama, betrayal, religion and sex, it's all here ... Fascinating' GUARDIAN 'Beautifully paced, impeccably written ... Don't miss it' INDEPENDENT 'Fraser is at her best here, lucid, authoritative and compassionate' SUNDAY TIMES 'Superbly researched ... the definitive work on the ill-fated queen' CATHOLI ...Show more
Mary Queen Of Scots by Antonia Fraser
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Category: History | Series: Women in History Ser. | Reading Level: very good
'Ground-breaking ... One of the greatest international bestsellers of the post-war period' Andrew Roberts, Daily Telegraph 'Reads like an engrossing novel' Sunday Times An infant queen. A teenage widow. Beautiful, flamboyant Mary Queen of Scots had a formidable intellect but her political sense - formed ...Show more
Mary Queen of Scots by Antonia Fraser
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Category: History
Mary Queen of Scots passed her childhood in France and married the Dauphin to become Queen of France at the age of sixteen. Widowed less than two years later, she returned to Scotland as Queen after an absence of thirteen years. Her life then entered its best known phase: the early struggles with John K ...Show more
Must You Go? My Life with Harold Pinter by Antonia Fraser
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Category: Biography & Memoir
I first saw Harold across a crowded room, but it was lunchtime, not some enchanted evening, and we did not speak. When Antonia Fraser met Harold Pinter she was a celebrated biographer and he was Britain's finest playwright. Both were already married - Pinter to the actress Vivien Merchant and Fraser to ...Show more
My History: A Memoir of Growing Up by Antonia Fraser
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Category: Biography & Memoir
The childhood and early life memoir of Antonia Fraser, one of our finest narrative historians. Antonia Fraser's magical memoir describes growing up in the 1930s and '40s, but its real concern is with her growing love of history. A fascination that began with reading Our Island Story and her evacuation ...Show more
Our Israeli DiaryOf That Time, of That Place by Antonia Fraser
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Category: Biography & Memoir
In May 1978 Harold Pinter and Antonia Fraser visited Israel at the time of the 30th Anniversary of Independence. It was three years after they first lived together; neither had set foot in Israel before. Based in Jerusalem, they toured many of the country s historic sites: from Bethlehem to the fortress ...Show more
The Case of the Married Woman: Caroline Norton by Antonia Fraser
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Category: History
'Before biography was fashionable, Antonia Fraser made the past popular' Guardian'As a pure storyteller, Antonia Fraser has few equals' Sunday TimesCAROLINE NORTON, a nineteenth-century heroine who wanted justice for women.Poet, pamphleteer and artist's muse, Caroline Norton dazzled nineteenth-century s ...Show more
The Gunpowder Plot: Terror And Faith In 1605 by Antonia Fraser
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Category: History
A bestselling historian's account of the Gunpowder Plot - 'History as it should be written' - Roy Strong.
The King and the Catholics: England, Ireland, and the Fight for Religious Freedom, 1780-1829 by Antonia Fraser
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Category: History
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, and to ...Show more
The King and the Catholics: The Fight for Rights 1829 by Antonia Fraser
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Category: History
The dramatic struggle for Catholic rights in 19th-century Britain.