I am re-reading Henry James as a change from history. I began with Daisy Miller, and I've just finished Washington Square. What a brilliant, painful book.
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 O… - Antonia Fraser
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 O…
- Antonia Fraser
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… - Antonia Fraser
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…
As long as you persecute people, you will actually throw up terrorism. - Antonia Fraser
As long as you persecute people, you will actually throw up terrorism.
I have seen all, I have heard all, I have forgotten all. marie antoinette - Antonia Fraser
I have seen all, I have heard all, I have forgotten all. marie antoinette
I think there's a tremendous split between people who've been through a war and people who haven't. - Antonia Fraser
I think there's a tremendous split between people who've been through a war and people who haven't.
King Charles II liked women's company and well as making love to them. - Antonia Fraser
King Charles II liked women's company and well as making love to them.
My mother, who was quite sharp when I was young, became utterly mild. - Antonia Fraser
My mother, who was quite sharp when I was young, became utterly mild.
I hate the only one of my book jackets when I was made up professionally, my hair made into a smooth bell. - Antonia Fraser
I hate the only one of my book jackets when I was made up professionally, my hair made into a smooth bell.
I decided as usual that justice lay in the middle - that is to say nowhere. - Antonia Fraser
I decided as usual that justice lay in the middle - that is to say nowhere.
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