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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
Love and Louis XIV: The Women in the Life of the Sun King by Lady Antonia Fraser
$35.00 AUD
Category: World History/Politics
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, as Antonia Fraser keenly describes, he was equally legendary in the domestic sphere. Indeed, a panoply of women -- his ...Show more
Marie Antoinette : The Journey by Antonia Fraser
$32.99 AUD
Category: Biography / Memoir | Reading Level: very good
'Drama, betrayal, religion and sex, it's all here ... Fascinating' GUARDIAN 'Beautifully paced, impeccably written ... Don't miss it' INDEPENDENT 'Fraser is at her best here, lucid, authoritative and compassionate' SUNDAY TIMES 'Superbly researched ... the definitive work on the ill-fated queen' CATHOLI ...Show more
Mary Queen of Scots by Antonia Fraser
$32.99 AUD
Category: World History/Politics | 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
Must You Go? My Life with Harold Pinter by Antonia Fraser
$24.99 AUD
Category: Biography / Memoir
I first saw Harold across a crowded room, but it was lunchtime, not some enchanted evening, and we did not speak. When Antonia Fraser met Harold Pinter she was a celebrated biographer and he was Britain's finest playwright. Both were already married - Pinter to the actress Vivien Merchant and Fraser to ...Show more
My History - A Memoir of Growing Up by Antonia Fraser
$69.99 AUD
Category: Biography / Memoir
The childhood and early life memoir of Antonia Fraser, one of our finest narrative historians. Antonia Fraser's magical memoir describes growing up in the 1930s and '40s, but its real concern is with her growing love of history. A fascination that began with reading Our Island Story and her evacuation ...Show more
My History - A Memoir of Growing Up by Fraser Antonia
$69.99 AUD
Category: Biography / Memoir | Reading Level: very good
The childhood and early life memoir of Antonia Fraser, one of our finest narrative historians. Antonia Fraser's magical memoir describes growing up in the 1930s and '40s, but its real concern is with her growing love of history. A fascination that began with reading Our Island Story and her evacuation t ...Show more
My History: A Memoir of Growing Up by Antonia Fraser
$34.99 AUD
Category: Biography / Memoir | Reading Level: good
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
My History: A Memoir of Growing Up by Antonia Fraser
$24.99 AUD
Category: Biography / Memoir
The childhood and early life memoir of Antonia Fraser, one of our finest narrative historians. Antonia Fraser's magical memoir describes growing up in the 1930s and '40s, but its real concern is with her growing love of history. A fascination that began with reading Our Island Story and her evacuation ...Show more
The King and the Catholics: The Fight for Rights 1829 by Antonia Fraser
$32.99 AUD
Category: New Non Fiction
The dramatic struggle for Catholic rights in 19th-century Britain.
The Perilous Question: The Drama of the Great Reform Bill 1832 by Antonia Fraser
$45.00 AUD
Category: New Non Fiction
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
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