Strickland was possibly the most celebrated Englishfemale historical biographer of the 19th Century. Antonia Fraser selects her best writing and explains its importance....more details Format:Paperback Pages:151
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Antonia Fraser
ISBN:9780752873022
COOL REPENTANCE: Christabel Herrick, the once-celebrated actress, is not bothered by the incredulity greeting her return to her luxurious country house...more details Format:Paperback / softback Pages:496
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Antonia Fraser
ISBN:9780753813317
No Englishman has made more impact on the history of his nation than Oliver Cromwell; few have been so persistently malignant in the folklore of history. The central purpose of Antonia Fraser is the recreation of his life & character...more details Format:Paperback Pages:1040
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Antonia Fraser
ISBN:9781842124932
Cromwell was a man of contradictions and surprising charm. The ruthless Psalm-singing General of the battlefields was also a country gentleman who...more details Format:Paperback Pages:800
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Antonia Fraser
ISBN:9780802137661
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...more details Format:Paperback Pages:576
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Antonia Fraser
ISBN:9780753814031
Following a youth of poverty and bitter exile after his father's execution, the ousted king first challenged, then made his magnificent escape from Cromwell's troops. He was eventually restored to his throne in triumph in 1660.Spanning his life both before and after the Restoration...more details Format:Paperback Pages:544
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Antonia Fraser
ISBN:9780297775713
The story of King Charles II is one of enduring fascination. The golden childhood of the boy Prince in the Van Dyck pictures gave way to an adventurous youth in Civil War England and abroad...more details Format:Hardback Pages:540
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Antonia Fraser
ISBN:9780752875149
The book centres around the Sun King and his relationship with numerous and fascinating women. Naturally dividing into five parts it will concentrate on the King's mother...more details Format:CD-Audio Pages:390
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Antonia Fraser
ISBN:9780753822937
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...more details Format:Paperback / softback Pages:544
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Antonia Fraser
ISBN:9780297829973
The book centres around the Sun King and his relationship with numerous and fascinating women. Naturally dividing into five parts it will concentrate on the King's mother...more details Format:Hardback Pages:416
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Antonia Fraser
ISBN:9781400033744
Louis XIV, the highly-feted "Sun King," was renowned for his political and cultural influence and for raising France to a new level of prominence in seventeenth-century Europe. And yet...more details Format:Paperback Pages:389
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Antonia Fraser
ISBN:9780752857664
Still a controversial figure - as well as a celebrated one - Marie Antoinette's dramatic life story arouses mixed emotions. To many, she is 'la reine mechante'...more details Format:CD-Audio Pages:360
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Antonia Fraser
ISBN:9780753821404
Marie Antoinette's dramatic life-story continues to arouse mixed emotions. To many people, she is still 'la reine mechante', whose extravagance and frivolity helped to bring down the French monarchy; her indifference to popular suffering epitomised by the (apocryphal) words: 'let them eat cake'. Others are equally passionate in her defence: to them...more details Format:Paperback / softback Pages:704
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Antonia Fraser
ISBN:9780752847306
Still a controversial figure - as well as a celebrated one - Marie Antoinette's dramatic life story arouses mixed emotions. To many, she is 'la reine mechante'...more details Format:Audio Pages:360
Marie Antoinette's dramatic life-story continues to arouse mixed emotions. To many people, she is still 'la reine mechante', whose extravagance and frivolity helped to bring down the French monarchy; her indifference to popular suffering epitomised by the (apocryphal) words: 'let them eat cake'. Others are equally passionate in her defence: to them...more details Format:Paperback Pages:640
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Antonia Fraser
ISBN:9780297819080
Still a controversial figure - as well as a celebrated one - Marie Antoinette's dramatic life-story continues to arouse mixed emotions. To many people...more details Format:Hardback Pages:496
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Antonia Fraser
ISBN:9780385489492
France's beleaguered queen, Marie Antoinette, wrongly accused of uttering the infamous " Let them eat cake, " was the subject of ridicule and curiosity even before her death; she has since been the object of debate and speculation and the fascination so often accorded tragic figures in history. Married in mere girlhood...more details Format:Paperback Pages:544
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Antonia Fraser
ISBN:9780752853482
More than four hundred years after her death, Mary Queen of Scots remains one of the most romantic and controversial figures in British history. Antonia Fraser's classic biography of her won the James Tait Prize when it was first published in 1969...more details Format:Audio Pages:390
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Antonia Fraser
ISBN:9781842124468
Mary passed her childhood in France and married the Dauphin to become Queen of France at the age of 16. Widowed less than two years later, se returned to Scotland as Queen after an absence of 13 years. Her life then entered its best-known phase: the early struggles with John Knox...more details Format:Paperback Pages:800
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Antonia Fraser
ISBN:9781842126349
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...more details Format:Paperback Pages:640
Antonia Fraser's biography, four years in the writing, enters fully into the life of an historical figure who continues to capture the popular imagination...more details Format:Hardback Pages:640
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Antonia Fraser
ISBN:9780385532501
A moving testament to modern literature's most celebrated marriage: that of the greatest playwright of our age, Harold Pinter, and the beautiful and famous prize-winning biographer Antonia Fraser. In this exquisite memoir...more details Format:Hardcover Pages:328
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Antonia Fraser
ISBN:9780307475572
A moving and exquisite testament to one of the literary world's most celebrated marriages: that of the greatest playwright of our age...more details Format:Paperback Pages:328
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Antonia Fraser
ISBN:9780393318241
In this tale Jemima is reluctantly shooting a TV expose - "Golden Lads and Girls" - on the exotic lifestyles of overprivileged undergraduates. Among them is Lord Saffron...more details Format:Paperback Pages:224
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Antonia Fraser
ISBN:9780393318227
When a murder takes place in a secluded tower at Blessed Eleanor's Convent in Sussex and the victim is an old school friend, Britain's most popular TV reporter Jemima Shore finds herself in the middle of a disturbing puzzle. The dead woman...more details Format:Paperback Pages:176
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Antonia Fraser
ISBN:9780752881003
TV reporter Jemima Shore is at a loose end. Otherwise she might never have responded to the intriguing plea for help she receives from the head of Blessed Eleanor's Convent...more details Format:Paperback / softback Pages:208
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Antonia Fraser
ISBN:9781858810935
Robin Hood, Maid Marian, Little John, Friar Tuck and the rest of the Merry Men of Sherwood Forest are all here, in stories packed with excitement...more details Format:Paperback Pages:256
"Divorced, beheaded, died; divorced, beheaded, survived.' So the six wives of Henry VIII - Catherine of Aragon, Anne Boleyn, Jane Seymour, Anna of Cleves...more details Format:Audio Pages:360
The six wives of Henry VIII- Catherine of Aragon, Anne Boleyn, Jane Seymour, Anna of Cleves, Katherine Howard and catherine Parr- have become defined in popular sense not so much by their lives but by the the way their lives ended. But...more details Format:Paperback Pages:496
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Antonia Fraser
ISBN:9780297643555
'Divorced, beheaded, died; divorced, beheaded, survived.' So the six wives of Henry VIII - Catherine of Aragon, Anne Boleyn, Jane Seymour, Anna of Cleves...more details Format:Hardback Pages:494
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Antonia Fraser
ISBN:9780752881027
London is in the grip of a summer heat wave. Jemima Shore is looking forward to some peaceful research time in the British Library, while she stays in her friend Chloe's flat. When Chloe suddenly disappears and a shocking murder is discovered...more details Format:Paperback / softback Pages:272
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Antonia Fraser
ISBN:9780752881010
'Utmost quiet required for TV personality' said the advertisement that TV reporter Jemima Shore's secretary placed in The Times. However, a cryptic letter from Charles Beauregard...more details Format:Paperback / softback Pages:224
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Antonia Fraser
ISBN:9780752861418
With a narrative that grips the reader like a detective story, Antonia Fraser brings the characters and events of the Gunpowder Plot to life. Dramatically recreating the conditions and motives that surrounded the fateful night of November 5 1605...more details Format:CD-Audio Pages:360
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Antonia Fraser
ISBN:9780753814017
With a narrative that grips the reader like a detective story, Antonia Fraser brings the characters and events of the Gunpowder Plot to life. Dramatically recreating the conditions and motives that surrounded the fateful night of 5 November 1605...more details Format:Paperback Pages:448
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Antonia Fraser
ISBN:9780304357239
A complete overview of England's royal heritage at an unbeatable price Edited by the historian Antonia Fraser Written by an expert team of...more details Format:Hardback Pages:416
Illustrated in a sweep of colourful episodes, this volume contains the stories of England's monarchs, spanning ten great dynasties, from the invading Normans of 1066 to the House of Windsor. Antonia Fraser introduces this pageant of royalty...more details Format:Paperback Pages:384
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Antonia Fraser
ISBN:9780520224605
This essential reference is a concise, accessible guide to the great dynasties of English royalty. A collection of biographical sketches that encompasses the period from the establishment of monarchical power by the early Norman kings through the reign of Elizabeth II...more details Format:Paperback Pages:384
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Antonia Fraser
ISBN:9780752861425
The six wives of Henry VIII- Catherine of Aragon, Anne Boleyn, Jane Seymour, Anna of Cleves, Katherine Howard and Catherine Parr- have become defined in popular sense not so much by their lives but by the the way their lives ended. But...more details Format:CD-Audio Pages:360
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Antonia Fraser
ISBN:9781780221830
Release Date: 01 June 2012 A Special Edition of the bestselling biography of Henry VIII's six wives by Antonia Fraser...more details Format:Paperback / softback Pages:608
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Antonia Fraser
ISBN:9780752872902
QUIET AS A NUN When a murder takes place in a secluded tower at Blessed Eleanor's Convent in Sussex, the victim turns out to be an old school friend of Britain's most popular TV reporter...more details Format:Paperback / softback Pages:496
Antonia Fraser's Warrior Queensare those women who have both ruled and led in war. They include Catherine the Great, Elizabeth I, Isabella of Spain...more details Format:Paperback Pages:400
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Antonia Fraser
ISBN:9781842126356
Just how weak were the women of the Civil War era? What could they expect beyond marriage and childbirth in an age where infant and maternal mortality was frequent and contraception unknown? Did anyone marry for love? Could a woman divorce? What rights had the unmarried? What expectations the widows? An expert on the period...more details Format:Paperback Pages:728
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Lady Antonia Fraser;Antonia Fraser
ISBN:9780393316872
Back in print -- Antonia Fraser's third Jemima Shore mystery, in which the intrepid and glamorous detective confronts sinister doings in a Bloomsbury penthouse.
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Antonia Fraser;Justine Eyre
ISBN:9780739339572
The superb historian and biographer Antonia Fraser, author of Marie Antoinette, casts new light on the splendor and the scandals of the reign of Louis XIV in this dramatic...more details Format:CD
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Antonia Fraser (ed)
ISBN:9780297829065
A very personal anthology, Antonia Fraser has chosen the letters for their emotional power, or state of love expressed. The categories include Passions...more details Format:Hardback Pages:224
France's beleaguered queen, Marie Antoinette, wrongly accused of uttering the infamous "Let them eat cake," was the subject of ridicule and curiosity even before her death; she has since been the object of debate and speculation and the fascination so often accorded tragic figures in history. Married in mere girlhood...more details Format:CD
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Antonia Fraser;Andrew Roberts AndrewRoberts
ISBN:9780520228030
The House of Windsor has undergone profound changes since its inception in 1917. Their tenure has seen two world wars, an abdication, and undreamed-of social change...more details Format:Paperback Pages:104
Beginning with the reign of George I, this volume goes on to discuss the life and rule of Queen Victoria, whose seventy years on the throne saw the zenith of Britain's power abroad and a changing world at home. About the series A Royal History of England: From the beginning of monarchical power in Norman times to the present queen...more details Format:Paperback Pages:104
This is a celebration of almost 1,000 years of English history, told through the lives of England's monarchs. Fraser, an acclaimed scholar, has created both a useful reference and a fascinating history. Eight specialist contributors bring to life many royal figures such as the well-loved Victoria and the enigmatic...more details Format:CD
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Antonia Fraser;Wanda McCaddon
ISBN:9781572704336
The Lives of the Kings and Queens of England surveys the epic saga of England's monarchs, spanning ten great dynasties, from the invading Normans of 1066 to the House of Windsor today. Edited by noted historian Antonia Fraser...more details Format:CD
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Antonia Fraser;Maurice Ashley MauriceAshley
ISBN:9780520228009
"The Stuarts" begins with James VI of Scotland, who inherited the crown through his mother, Margaret Tudor, and ends in 1714, with the reign of Queen Anne...more details Format:Paperback Pages:104
From Henry IV, the first Lancastrian king, to Richard III, "The Wars of the Roses" follows the history of the kings of the houses of Lancaster and York who shaped this tumultuous period of English history. Anthony Cheetham provides insight into the politics...more details Format:Paperback Pages:104
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Lady Antonia Fraser;Antonia Fraser
ISBN:9780679730019
The six-week New York Times bestselling history of the legendary six wives of Henry VIII--from an acclaimed biographer. " Admirably succeed(s) in bringing to life the six women who married England's ruler...more details Format:Paperback Pages:496
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Fraser Antonia
ISBN:9780753826546
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...more details Format:Paperback Pages:824
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FRASER ANTONIA
ISBN:9780297859710
The subtitle of this wonderful memoir declares its contents: this is 'my life with Harold Pinter', not Lady Antonia Fraser's complete life and certainly not his.In essence...more details Format:Hardcover Pages:328
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Fraser Antonia
ISBN:9780753828786
A moving testament to modern literature's most celebrated marriage: that of the greatest playwright of our age, Harold Pinter, and the beautiful and famous prize-winning biographer...more details Format:Paperback / softback Pages:424
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Fraser Antonia (Ed)
ISBN:9781847678584
Meet the romantics and the unromantics, the passionate and the fainthearted, the tragic and the comic, in all their lyrical glory. This anthology explores the full range of emotions inspired by poetry's most popular subject: love.
Antonia Fraser has made a touching...more details Format:Paperback / softback Pages:320
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John Gillingham;John Fraser AntoniaGillingham
ISBN:9780520227996
This volume opens with the Norman conquest, William I's bold incursion in 1066 that propelled a new dynasty to the throne of England, and covers three centuries of drama...more details Format:Paperback Pages:120
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Hachette Australia
ISBN:9781409105305
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...more details Format:CD-Audio Pages:360