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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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  • 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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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    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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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    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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    from Jedburgh to be with him at Hermitage Castle. However, historian Antonia Fraser asserts that Queen Mary was already on her way to visit Bothwell on...
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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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    (1910–1959) Antonia Fraser, King Charles II, Weidenfeld and Nicolson Ltd., London, 1979 www.ThePeerage.com.pp. 7641,#76403 Antonia Fraser, King Charles...
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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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  • 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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    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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    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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    meant that when he died in 1605, his estate was £11,500 in debt. Author Antonia Fraser suggests that as a young man Francis became "resentful of his father's...
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