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Agnes Strickland's Lives of the Queens of England by Antonia Fraser
$24.00 AUD
Category: History | Series: Continuum Histories
Strickland was possibly the most celebrated English female historical biographer of the 19th Century. Antonia Fraser selects her best writing and explains its importance. "The Lives of the Queens of England" were among the most popular of all Victorian historical publications. They remain an important p ...Show more
Lady Caroline Lamb: A Free Spirit by Antonia Fraser
$59.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
From the outset, Caroline Lamb had a rebellious nature. From childhood she grew increasingly troublesome, experimenting with sedatives like laudanum, and she had a special governess to control her. She also had a merciless wit and talent for mimicry. She spoke French and German fluently, knew Greek and ...Show more
Mary Queen of Scots by Antonia Fraser
$29.99 AUD
Category: History | Series: Women in History
Mary Queen of Scots passed her childhood in France and married the Dauphin to become Queen of France at the age of sixteen. Widowed less than two years later, she returned to Scotland as Queen after an absence of thirteen years. Her life then entered its best known phase: the early struggles with John K ...Show more
My History: A Memoir of Growing Up by Antonia Fraser
$32.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
The title of Antonia Fraser's memoir of growing up has a double meaning. It is partly an attempt to recapture the experiences of her Oxford childhood and youth - in Shakespeare's phrase, to 'call back yesterday, bid time return'. But it is also intended as a chronicle of the progress of her love of hist ...Show more
The Perilous Question: The Drama of the Great Reform Bill 1832 by Antonia Fraser
$45.00 AUD
Category: History
Internationally bestselling historian Antonia Fraser's new book brilliantly evokes a key period of pre-Victorian political and social history - the passing of the Great Reform Bill of 1832. For our inconclusive times, there is an attractive resonance with 1832, with its 'rotten boroughs' of Old Sarum an ...Show more
The Pleasure of Reading: 43 Writers on the Discovery of Reading and the Books That Inspired Them by Antonia Fraser
$19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
In this delightful collection forty acclaimed writers explain what first made them interested in literature, what inspired them to read and what makes them continue to do so. First published in 1992 in hardback only, original contributors include Margaret Atwood, J. G. Ballard, Melvyn Bragg, A. S. Byatt ...Show more
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