Antonia Fraser
Author · 32 books
Antonia Fraser is the author of many widely acclaimed historical works, including the biographies Mary, Queen of Scots (a 40th anniversary edition was published in May 2009), Cromwell: Our Chief of Men, King Charles II and The Gunpowder Plot (CWA Non-Fiction Gold Dagger; St Louis Literary Award). She has written five highly praised books which focus on women in history, The Weaker Vessel: Women's Lot in Seventeenth Century Britain (Wolfson Award for History, 1984), The Warrior Queens: Boadecia's Chariot, The Six Wives of Henry VIII, Marie Antoinette: The Journey (Franco-British Literary Prize 2001), which was made into a film by Sofia Coppola in 2006 and most recently Love and Louis XIV: The Women in the Life of the Sun King. She was awarded the Norton Medlicott Medal by the Historical Association in 2000. Antonia Fraser was made DBE in 2011 for her services to literature. Her most recent book is Must You Go?, celebrating her life with Harold Pinter, who died on Christmas Eve 2008. She lives in London.
Series
Books
The Pleasure of Reading
43 Writers on the Discovery of Reading and the Books that Inspired Them
1992
A Splash of Red
1981
Marie Antoinette
The Journey
2001
King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table
1954
My History
A Memoir of Growing Up
2015
King James, VI of Scotland, I of England
1974
Kings and Queens of England
1975
The Weaker Vessel
1984
Charles II
His Life and Times
1992
The Wives of Henry VIII
1992
Your Royal Hostage
1987
The Cavalier Case
1990
Love and Louis XIV
The Women in the Life of the Sun King
2006
Cool Repentance
1982
Our Israeli Diary - Of That Time, Of That Place
2016
The Gunpowder Plot
Terror and Faith in 1605
1996
The Wild Island
1978
Oxford Blood
1985
Royal Charles
1979
The Warrior Queens
1988
Robin Hood
1971
The King and the Catholics
England, Ireland, and the Fight for Religious Freedom, 1780-1829
2018
The Case of the Married Woman
Caroline Norton and Her Fight for Women's Justice
2021
Perilous Question
Reform or Revolution? Britain on the Brink, 1832
2013
10 relatos de detectives
1996
The Houses of Hanover and Saxe-Coburg-Gotha
2000
King Charles II
2002
Quiet as a Nun
1977
Mary Queen of Scots
1969
Must You Go?
My Life with Harold Pinter
2010
Cromwell
1973
Political Death
1994
