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Antonia Fraser [1932-0] British

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Lady Antonia Margaret Caroline Fraser, DBE, née Pakenham, is a British author of history, novels, biographies and detective fiction.

Women, Education

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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.	Women	101
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.	Education, Women	102
As long as you persecute people, you will actually throw up terrorism.		103
I think mine is the fullest and most plausible account of what went on in Marie Antoinette's life.		104
Normally I make myself swim, do exercises. For zest I like going to the cinema.		105
Mary Queen of Scots was my first love, and that is always something special.		106
I'm very interested in good and evil and the moral natures of people.		107
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.		108
After Mary Queen of Scots, I turned to the farthest subject possible: Cromwell.		109
We are privileged. There are poor people out there. We must to do something to make them privileged.		110
That is my major concern: writers who are in prison for writing.		111
People in my books tend to get their just deserts, even if not at the hands of the police.		112
My mother, who was quite sharp when I was young, became utterly mild.		113
King Charles II liked women's company and well as making love to them.		114
It can be a long gap between the emergence of fully researched historical biographies.		115
If I write that it was a cold day, you can be sure I know it was a cold day because Pepys told us.		116
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!		117
The clue to book jacket photography is to look friendly and approachable, but not too glamorous.		118
I think there has been a great deal of valuable revisionism in women's history.		119
I think there's a tremendous split between people who've been through a war and people who haven't.		120
I think crime writing is my link with trying to preserve a sort of order.		121
I have no plans for a future Jemima Shore mystery, but would write one tomorrow if a good idea came to me.		122
I don't like it, but this afternoon I've told myself I am going to go and get a dress.		123
I can't read historical fiction because I find the real thing so much more interesting.		124
Ninety-seven is my lucky number.		125
My mother was a politician in my formative years.		126
I'm glad I was never an heiress.		201
I realize that I had always in my heart of hearts planned to write a biography of Marie Antoinette.		202
I hate the only one of my book jackets when I was made up professionally, my hair made into a smooth bell.		203

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