History Today, October 1st, 2000
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 the public library by actually borrowing lots of books. Worse, she'd often consume a volume of popular history in a single day and return that evening for another. She still remembers giving a Mary Stuart biography the one-day treatment.
This pattern of enthusiastic industriousness has lasted a lifetime and seen Lady Antonia Fraser, now in her sixty-...
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