Antonia Fraser es una aclamada escritora de historia cuyas obras se sumergen en momentos y figuras cruciales de la historia británica. Sus narrativas se caracterizan por una investigación meticulosa y una narración vívida, que dan vida a las épocas pasadas para el lector. Fraser explora con frecuencia la vida de las mujeres a lo largo de la historia, reconstruyendo sus experiencias a partir de documentos de época para crear retratos cautivadores. Su enfoque combina un análisis profundo con una narrativa atractiva, lo que convierte sus libros en lectura esencial para los entusiastas de la historia y la literatura.
The memoir explores the author's Oxford childhood and youth while reflecting on her lifelong passion for history, which began as a private joy in the 1930s. It aims to recapture past experiences and highlight how her love for history has intertwined with her life, influencing her perspective and writing. Fraser's narrative offers a personal account of how history has shaped her enjoyment of life, making it a unique blend of memoir and historical reflection.
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Woman's Lot in Seventeenth-Century England
What were the women of the Civil War era like? What could they expect beyond marriage and childbirth in an age where infant and maternal mortality was frequent and contraception unknown? Antonia Fraser brings to life the many women she has researched.
Each of Antonia Fraser’s four Jemima Shore mysteries has enlarged the audience for that redoubtable and unpremeditated sleuth. This new one is set against a theatrical background and shows all the narrative skills that have marked the works of its distinguished author along with an ever-increasing quality of suspense. It is the chilling story of Christobel, a beautiful and profligate actress, who thought she could just come back, repent, and resume with impunity the life she had deserted.
The New York Times bestselling history of the legendary six wives of Henry VIII--from the acclaimed author of Marie Antoinette. Under Antonia Fraser's intent scrutiny, Catherine of Aragon emerges as a scholar-queen who steadfastly refused to grant a divorce to her royal husband; Anne Boleyn is absolved of everything but a sharp tongue and an inability to produce a male heir; and Catherine Parr is revealed as a religious reformer with the good sense to tack with the treacherous winds of the Tudor court. And we gain fresh understanding of Jane Seymour's circumspect wisdom, the touching dignity of Anna of Cleves, and the youthful naivete that led to Katherine Howard's fatal indiscretions. The Wives of Henry VIII interweaves passion and power, personality and politics, into a superb work of history.
In Cromwell, award-winning biographer Antonia Fraser tells of one of England's most celebrated and controversial figures, often misunderstood and demonized as a puritanical zealot. Oliver Cromwell rose from humble beginnings to spearhead the rebellion against King Charles I, who was beheaded in 1649, and led his soldiers into the last battle against the Royalists and King Charles II at Worcester, ending the civil war in 1651. Fraser shows how England's prestige and prosperity grew under Cromwell, reversing the decline it had suffered since Queen Elizabeth I's death.
Exploring a profound thirty-year partnership, this memoir recounts the relationship between playwright Harold Pinter and biographer Antonia Fraser, beginning with their chance meeting while both were married to others. Through Fraser's recollections and diaries, the narrative reveals the joy and mutual devotion they shared, intertwined with their dedication to their creative pursuits. The book captures the essence of their love story while providing an insightful look into the complexities of married life, culminating in Pinter's battle with illness and his eventual passing.
A unique testimony to modern literature's most celebrated and enduring marriage.
The scandal of nineteenth-century Britain: the sensational trial of Caroline Norton for adultery with the first Victorian Prime Minister
Mistresses and wives, mothers and daughters - Antonia Fraser brilliantly explores the relationships which existed between The Sun King and the women in his life. This includes not only Louis XIV's mistresses, principally Louise de La Vallière, Athénaïs de Montespan, and the puritanical Madame de Maintenon, but also the wider story of his relationships with women in general, including his mother Anne of Austria, his two sisters-in-law who were Duchesses d'Orléans in succession, Henriette-Anne and Liselotte, his wayward illegitimate daughters, and lastly Adelaide, the beloved child-wife of his grandson.
