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    Lady Antonia Margaret Caroline Fraser, CH, DBE, FRSL (née Pakenham; born 27 August 1932) is a British author of history, novels, biographies and detective...
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    Day Company. Fraser, Antonia (2001). Marie Antoinette (1st ed.). New York: N.A. Talese/Doubleday. ISBN 978-0-385-48948-5. Fraser, Antonia (2002). Marie...
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  • Joseph Fraser MBE (23 January 1918 – 6 March 1984) was a British Conservative Party politician and first husband of Lady Antonia Fraser. Fraser was the...
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    attended Lincoln's Inn, but the Inn's archives retain no record of him. Antonia Fraser concludes that it is likely that he did train at one of the London Inns...
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    Daniel, born in 1958. He left Merchant in 1975 and married author Lady Antonia Fraser in 1980. Pinter's career as a playwright began with a production of...
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    Historians Antonia Fraser, Diarmaid MacCulloch and Derek Wilson believe that the portrait is likely to depict Elizabeth Seymour. Antonia Fraser has argued...
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    French royal family and the date of the saying's origin. According to Antonia Fraser, the notorious story of the ignorant princess was first said 100 years...
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  • 2000. Sofia Coppola bought the rights twice, but in the end she chose Antonia Fraser's biography Marie Antoinette: The Journey instead of Lever's book as...
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  • Jemima Shore is a fictional character created by Antonia Fraser, and is portrayed as TV's consummately professional investigative journalist. She is featured...
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  • of Scots, by Antonia Fraser. A 40th-anniversary edition of the book was published in 2009. As she states in her "Author's Note", Fraser aims to test the...
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    These include David Starkey, feminist activist Karen Lindsey, Lady Antonia Fraser, Alison Weir, Carolly Erickson, Alison Plowden, Susan James and Linda...
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  • Marie Antoinette: The Journey (category Books by Antonia Fraser)
    of archduchess Marie Antoinette, the Queen of France (1774–1792) by Antonia Fraser. It is the basis for the 2006 Sofia Coppola film Marie Antoinette. The...
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    The Lady of Bleeding Heart Yard (1935). The well-known British author Antonia Fraser devotes part of a chapter of her The Weaker Vessel (1984) to a modern...
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    professionalism that endeared him to his fellow conspirators. The author Antonia Fraser describes Fawkes as "a tall, powerfully built man, with thick reddish-brown...
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  • The Journey, a 2001 biography by Antonia Fraser Marie Antoinette (2006 film), a film by Sofia Coppola based on the Fraser book Marie Antoinette (soundtrack)...
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  • lamenting and weeping." Lovell 2005, p. 92 Fraser 1971, pp.474-475 Antonia Fraser, Mary, Queen of Scots, pp.534-535 Fraser 1971, p. 535 Henry Ellis, Original...
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    Kinge Henry the Eyght father and mother to Elizabeth Quene of England". Antonia Fraser, The Wives of Henry VIII (Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1992), p. 119 Letters...
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  • Cromwell, Our Chief of Men by Antonia Fraser is a biography of Oliver Cromwell. The title is from a poem praising Cromwell by John Milton, perhaps the...
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  • Jemima Shore at the Sunny Grave (category Works by Antonia Fraser)
    Jemima Shore at the Sunny Grave And Other Stories is a book by Antonia Fraser. First published in 1991, it is a collection of nine short stories, featuring...
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  • Chapuys, who referred to Mistress Shelton. According to biographer Antonia Fraser, this was Margaret Shelton. Chapuys was always at court when in England...
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  • 1996 book by Antonia Fraser published by Weidenfeld & Nicolson. The work is a history of the Gunpowder Plot of 1605. According to Fraser, it was an event...
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  • aired in twelve episodes in 1983. It is based on a series of novels by Antonia Fraser about Jemima Shore, a crime-solving television presenter. Actors who...
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  • described her as "one of the best English novelists born in this century". Antonia Fraser called her "one of the most underrated writers of the 20th century"...
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  • Oxford Blood (category Novels by Antonia Fraser)
    Oxford Blood is a crime novel by Antonia Fraser first published in 1985. The novel begins with reporter Jemima Shore making a television documentary at...
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    Walsingham. In The CW series Reign, Amy Brenneman portrays Marie de Guise. Antonia Fraser, Mary Queen of Scots, pp. 3 and 12. Joseph Bain, Hamilton Papers, vol...
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    proceedings from the town's registers. Mary's biographers, such as Antonia Fraser, Alison Weir, and John Guy, have concluded that either the documents...
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  • accessed 27-11-09 Rogers, p. 139 Antonia Fraser, Mary, Queen of Scots, p. 290, Dell Publishing Co., Inc., New York, 1969 Fraser, p. 291 Genealogical Memoirs...
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    propose Louis Stanislas' alleged impotence (according to biographer Antonia Fraser) or his unwillingness to sleep with his wife due to her poor personal...
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    at York in 1586, a fact which in the opinion of historian and author Antonia Fraser, "could hardly have failed to leave a stark impression upon the Wintour...
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  • Scott-James, and then from 1979 by the historian Antonia Fraser. In the one season in which Fraser took the chair her place as Norden's teammate was...
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