Think how nice and suitable Lady Germaine would sound.”. He’d be directing or have a play starting to do something, and I loved it. ''Work is the opposite of stress. In recent years she has also become a writer of popular mystery novels (the Jemima Shore series, beginning with ''Quiet as a Nun''), which have been adapted to television. ''What would strike a time traveler is that everyone between 15 and 50 would be permanently pregnant. Please try again","bd_saving_percent_off":"{0}%
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If you have a great change in your life at the age of 42, it's not surprising that a new form emerges.''.

When it was suggested to Lady Longford that she write a book about Mary Queen of Scots, Lady Antonia claimed the queen as her subject.

In common with her husband, Lady Longford was educated at Oxford.  $23.10, $31.47 -- Dominic Sandbrook * SUNDAY TIMES *. Paperback. We had lots of intellectual stimulation but not much food and very little comfort.  $16.29, $16.49 ''When I'm writing history,'' she says, ''I've got to be in my shell.'' “I used to sit thinking ‘What is the subject of this book?’ and yet I instinctively felt all along that it was a frightfully good one. Asked if she considered herself a positive person, she said: ''I think I'm quite pleasure-loving. By Mel Gussow NTONIA FRASER LIVES ON A QUIET, TREE-SHADED square in the Kensington section of London in a large, airy house that she shares with her second husband, the playwright Harold Pinter. I wanted three things: to write a bestseller, to marry Prince Charming and to train a winner of the Derby.

My books are very short. Mary is on the wall, along with Cromwell and Charles II. '', At one point in her new book she lists what were considered to be the feminine virtues - fidelity, modesty, meekness, patience and humility. As one friend says, ''She's a formidable woman. Nugatory, she explained, means worthless. Rather frightened, you would lift the sash, and, bang, he'd fire a bullet straight under one's arm and shoot a rabbit out in the park.

.  $57.17, $17.32 “I was not especially interested in fashion or great designers as such but great anything rather interests me so, when George Weidenfeld – for whom I was working at the time – suggested it, I agreed. '', When it was pointed out that she was herself the mother of six and the sister of seven, she said: ''Women's expectations have risen. Born a Protestant, he converted to Catholicism.  $47.70, $56.48 From the vantage point of a third generation, Rebecca Fraser says her mother and grandmother have ''wills of iron,'' which they use ''in harmony.'' I would be allowed to dress her, to try on her earrings. I bought a pair of high-heeled white ankle-strap shoes and it was more than I could afford, but my ankles were calling out for straps. Her father, Lord Longford, also 78 (Frank Pakenham before he received his hereditary title), has written some 15 volumes, including several memoirs. We got pocket money but to get it on Sunday we had to learn a verse from the Bible. A healthy crowd of boys and members of the Eton Community squeezed into the ‘Holy of holies’ venue of the Provost’s Drawing room – Standing Room Only for a good few – to hear Lady Antonia Fraser, author of 13 History books, daughter of an OE (and Labour politician), and widow of one of the 20th Century’s most noted playwrights, ‘in conversation’ with the Vice Provost. Although in no way a fashion follower – “I don’t think fashion is interesting” – Lady Antonia likes and is aware of clothes. Looking back, Lady Longford suggests that her children picked up writing ''as a kind of virus.''  $46.34, $34.11 You may think of it as rather mealy-mouthed. When I was on what would now be called a gap year, between school and Oxford, I worked in Fenwick’s hat department in Bond Street. For her protagonist she invented the character of Jemima Shore, a television investigative reporter, who becomes involved in solving crimes. “She has extraordinary guts. Please review our, You need to be a subscriber to join the conversation.

 $31.35, Learn about new offers and get more deals by joining our newsletter, 'Utterly gripping and consistently witty' Damian Thompson, Literary Review, Proving there's no retirement age for writers, Antonia Fraser brings 50 years of accumulated skill in the writing of gripping history to a book it is impossible to imagine anyone else writing with such liveliness and insight. Because she synthesizes beauty, intelligence and artistic talent, she is a kind of heroine to other women, provoking simultaneous feelings of admiration and envy. Lady Antonia herself characterizes the couple as Jack Sprat and his wife, a comparison that has a validity in creative as well as personal terms. Why shouldn’t everyone be a lady? After all, she had studied and admired her since she was a young girl. August 1932 in Bayswater, London als Antonia Margaret Caroline Pakenham) ist eine britische Bestseller-Autorin und Verfasserin historischer Biographien. It wasn’t what I wanted. To this day, she remains a speed reader, finishing a novel in an afternoon and astounding strangers on planes or trains who cannot believe that such swift page turning actually constitutes reading. The best financial decision was to buy my house, which my then husband [the late Sir Hugh Fraser, Conservative MP] didn’t want to buy as it was too far from the House of Commons. Her expansiveness is reflected in her books, which are abundant with flavorful detail. I had automatically thought that the graph of progress must go up. x 26mm We urge you to turn off your ad blocker for The Telegraph website so that you can continue to access our quality content in the future. Writing crime is a hobby. It happens in all aristocratic families, I think.

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