The English writer Lady Antonia Fraser (born 1932), was a popular biographer, historian, and mystery novelist. Lady Antonia Fraser was born on August 27, 1932, in London, England. She was the daughter of the seventh Earl of Longford, Francis Pakenham...

Although Lady Antonia Fraser is best known as an historian with a strong interest in biography and women's studies, she has also written a series of elaborately plotted mystery novels featuring television commentator Jemima Shore, works reflecting the...

Versatile writer Antonia Fraser "has won many accolades for her meticulous research and attention to detail," wrote Edie Gibson in the Chicago Tribune, "[and for] bringing a lively narrative style to historical writing, capturing readers who typically...

Daniel Snowman meets the biographer of Tudors and Stuarts and author of The Weaker Vessel and The Gunpowder Plot. WHEN ANTONIA PAKENHAM was a girl living in wartime Oxford, where her father was a politics don, she would terrorise the dragon at...

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The following essay provides a portrait of Fraser's personal life as background to her work.

In the following review, Kenyon presents an informed account of the history of Mary Queen of Scots and the political environment of the time, while commenting on Fraser's Mary Queen of Scots and comparing it to the work of other historians.

In the following review, Woods compares The Weaker Vessel with another work on the cultural history of women.