Antonia Fraser Quotes

Antonia Fraser — British Author born on August 27, 1932,

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... (wikipedia)

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.

After Mary Queen of Scots, I turned to the farthest subject possible: Cromwell.

I'm very interested in good and evil and the moral natures of people.

Mary Queen of Scots was my first love, and that is always something special.

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 Quotes

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