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
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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.
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Why waste time instructing others when you could be reading the manuscripts yourself? The only exceptions are matters of foreign language.
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My mother, who was quite sharp when I was young, became utterly mild.
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Ninety-seven is my lucky number.
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My mother was a politician in my formative years.
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Mary Queen of Scots was my first love, and that is always something special.
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King Charles II liked women's company and well as making love to them.
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If I write that it was a cold day, you can be sure I know it was a cold day because Pepys told us.
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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!
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I'm very interested in good and evil and the moral natures of people.
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I'm glad I was never an heiress.
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As long as you persecute people, you will actually throw up terrorism.
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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.