I think there’s a tremendous split between people who’ve been through a war and people who haven’t. Antonia Fraser Read Quote
I think there has been a great deal of valuable revisionism in women’s history. Antonia Fraser Read Quote
The concentration in my book on Marie Antoinette’s childhood and on her family influences. It is surprising how some books actually start with her arrival in France! Antonia Fraser Read Quote
If I write that it was a cold day, you can be sure I know it was a cold day because Pepys told us. Antonia Fraser Read Quote
I have no plans for a future Jemima Shore mystery, but would write one tomorrow if a good idea came to me. Antonia Fraser Read Quote
Lives in previous centuries for women are largely a matter of class. It would have been fun to have been a rich, privileged woman in the 18th century, but no fun at all to be her maid. Antonia Fraser Read Quote
Mary Queen of Scots was my first love, and that is always something special. Antonia Fraser Read Quote
My advantage as a woman and a human being has been in having a mother who believed strongly in women’s education. She was an early undergraduate at Oxford, and her own mother was a doctor. Antonia Fraser Read Quote
