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Antonia Fraser
British
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About the author
It can be a long gap between the emergence of fully researched historical biographies.
Antonia Fraser,
British
Author
As long as you persecute people, you will actually throw up terrorism.
Antonia Fraser,
British
Author
#People
#Will
#Terrorism
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.
Antonia Fraser,
British
Author
#History
#Washington
#Change
I can't read historical fiction because I find the real thing so much more interesting.
Antonia Fraser,
British
Author
#Fiction
I don't like it, but this afternoon I've told myself I am going to go and get a dress.
Antonia Fraser,
British
Author
#Dress
I hate the only one of my book jackets when I was made up professionally, my hair made into a smooth bell.
Antonia Fraser,
British
Author
#Hate
#Hair
I have no plans for a future Jemima Shore mystery, but would write one tomorrow if a good idea came to me.
Antonia Fraser,
British
Author
#Idea
#Future
#Mystery
#Tomorrow
I realize that I had always in my heart of hearts planned to write a biography of Marie Antoinette.
Antonia Fraser,
British
Author
#Heart
#Biography
I think crime writing is my link with trying to preserve a sort of order.
Antonia Fraser,
British
Author
#Crime
#Writing
#Trying
#Order
I think mine is the fullest and most plausible account of what went on in Marie Antoinette's life.
Antonia Fraser,
British
Author
#Life
I think there has been a great deal of valuable revisionism in women's history.
Antonia Fraser,
British
Author
#History
#Women
I think there's a tremendous split between people who've been through a war and people who haven't.
Antonia Fraser,
British
Author
#People
#War
I'm glad I was never an heiress.
Antonia Fraser,
British
Author
After Mary Queen of Scots, I turned to the farthest subject possible: Cromwell.
Antonia Fraser,
British
Author
#Queen
If I write that it was a cold day, you can be sure I know it was a cold day because Pepys told us.
Antonia Fraser,
British
Author
#Day
That is my major concern: writers who are in prison for writing.
Antonia Fraser,
British
Author
#Writing
#Writers
#Prison
King Charles II liked women's company and well as making love to them.
Antonia Fraser,
British
Author
#Love
#Women
#Company
Lives in previous centuries for women are largely a matter of class. It would have been fun to have been a rich, privileged woman in the 18th century, but no fun at all to be her maid.
Antonia Fraser,
British
Author
#Fun
#Woman
#Women
#Class
Mary Queen of Scots was my first love, and that is always something special.
Antonia Fraser,
British
Author
#Love
#First
#Queen
#First love
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.
Antonia Fraser,
British
Author
#Being
#Woman
#Mother
#Education
#Women
My mother was a politician in my formative years.
Antonia Fraser,
British
Author
#Years
#Mother
My mother, who was quite sharp when I was young, became utterly mild.
Antonia Fraser,
British
Author
#Mother
Ninety-seven is my lucky number.
Antonia Fraser,
British
Author
Normally I make myself swim, do exercises. For zest I like going to the cinema.
Antonia Fraser,
British
Author
#Cinema
#Zest
People in my books tend to get their just deserts, even if not at the hands of the police.
Antonia Fraser,
British
Author
#People
#Books
#Police
The clue to book jacket photography is to look friendly and approachable, but not too glamorous.
Antonia Fraser,
British
Author
#Photography
We are privileged. There are poor people out there. We must to do something to make them privileged.
Antonia Fraser,
British
Author
#People
#Poor
I'm very interested in good and evil and the moral natures of people.
Antonia Fraser,
British
Author
#People
#Evil
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!
Antonia Fraser,
British
Author
#Family
#Books
#Childhood