Antonia Fraser Quotes

• I think mine is the fullest and most plausible account of what went on in Marie Antoinette’s life.

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• I think crime writing is my link with trying to preserve a sort of order.

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• I realize that I had always in my heart of hearts planned to write a biography of Marie Antoinette.

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• I have no plans for a future Jemima Shore mystery, but would write one tomorrow if a good idea came to me.

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• I hate the only one of my book jackets when I was made up professionally, my hair made into a smooth bell.

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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.

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• I can’t read historical fiction because I find the real thing so much more interesting.

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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.

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• As long as you persecute people, you will actually throw up terrorism.

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

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Antonia Fraser (30)

Birth:	27th August, 1932
Nationality:	British
Profession:	Author, Novelist

About

Antonia Fraser  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. Her first major work, published by Weidenfeld & Nicolson, was Mary, Queen of Scots, which was followed by several other biographies, including Cromwell, Our Chief of Men She won the Wolfson History Award in 1984 for The Weaker Vessel, a study of women's lives in 17th century England. From 1988 to 1989, she was president of English PEN, and she chaired its Writers in Prison Committee. She also has written detective novels; the most popular involved a character named Jemima Shore and were adapted into a television series which aired in the UK in 1983.

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• 1901 - Queen Victoria
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• 1973 - Lyndon B. Johnson
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