Lady Antonia Margaret Caroline Fraser, (' Pakenham; born 27 August 1932) is a British author of history, novels, biographies and

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. She is the widow of the 2005 Nobel Laureate in Literature,

Harold Pinter Harold Pinter (; 10 October 1930 – 24 December 2008) was a British playwright, screenwriter, director and actor. A Nobel Prize winner, Pinter was one of the most influential modern British dramatists with a writing career that span ...

(1930–2008), and prior to his death was also known as Lady Antonia Pinter.

Mel Gussow Melvyn Hayes "Mel" Gussow (; December 19, 1933 – April 29, 2005) was an American theater critic, movie critic, and author who wrote for ''The New York Times'' for 35 years. Biography Gussow was born in New York City and grew up in Rockville ...

"The Lady Is a Writer"
''

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'', 9 September 1984, Sec. 6, Health: 60, col. 2. Print. The New York Times Company, 9 September 1984; retrieved 8 April 2009.Antonia Fraser
"Writer's Rooms: Antonia Fraser"
''

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'', Culture: Books,

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, 13 June 2008; retrieved 8 April 2009. (Includes photograph of Antonia Fraser's study.)"Non-Fiction: Author: Antonia Fraser"
, Orion Books, 2004–2007 pdated 2009 retrieved 9 April 2009.

Family background and education

Fraser is the first-born of the eight children of The 7th Earl of Longford (1905–2001) and his wife, Elizabeth, Countess of Longford, ''

née A birth name is the name of a person given upon birth. The term may be applied to the surname, the given name, or the entire name. Where births are required to be officially registered, the entire name entered onto a birth certificate or birth ...

'' Elizabeth Harman (1906–2002). As the daughter of an

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, she is accorded the courtesy title "Lady" and thus customarily addressed formally as "Lady Antonia". As a teenager,Ginny Dougary
"Lady Antonia Fraser's Life Less Ordinary"
br> "In a Frank Interview, the Famed Writer Talks about Motherhood, Catholicism, Her Parents and Soulmate

", ''

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'',

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, 5 July 2008, 9 April 2009. she and her siblings converted to

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, following the conversions of their parents.Daniel Snowman,
"Lady Antonia Fraser"
''

History Today ''History Today'' is an illustrated history magazine. Published monthly in London since January 1951, it presents serious and authoritative history to as wide a public as possible. The magazine covers all periods and geographical regions and pub ...

'' 50.10 (October 2000): pp. 26–28, ''History Today'', n.d., 8 April 2009 (excerpt; full article available to subscribers or pay-per-view customers). Her "maternal grandparents were

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– a non-conformist faith with a strong emphasis on social reform ...". In response to criticism of her writing about

Oliver Cromwell Oliver Cromwell (25 April 15993 September 1658) was an English politician and military officer who is widely regarded as one of the most important statesmen in English history. He came to prominence during the 1639 to 1651 Wars of the Three K ...

, she has said, "I have no Catholic blood". Before his own conversion in his thirties following a nervous breakdown in the Army, as she explains: "My father was Protestant Church of Ireland, and my mother was Unitarian up to the age of 20 when she abandoned it." She was educated at the

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,"Non-Fiction: Antonia Fraser: Author Q&A"
, ''Orion Books'', 2004–2007 pdated 2009 retrieved 9 April 2009.

St Mary's School, Ascot St Mary's School Ascot is a Roman Catholic independent day and boarding school for girls in Ascot, Berkshire, England.2011 ISI InspectioReport/ref> It is a member of the Girls' Schools Association. It was named 2015 " Public School of the Year ...

, and Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford; the last was also her mother's alma mater.Nicholas Wroe,
"Profile: The History Woman"
''The Guardian'', Arts & Humanities, 24 August 2002; retrieved 8 April 2009.
, ''University of Oxford Alumni'', University of Oxford, 29 October 2007. Retrieved 17 June 2008. Prior to going to Oxford in 1950, she was a

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in the London

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Career

Fraser began work as an "all-purpose assistant" for

George Weidenfeld George Weidenfeld, Baron Weidenfeld, (13 September 1919 – 20 January 2016) was a British publisher, philanthropist, and newspaper columnist. He was also a lifelong Zionist and renowned as a master networker. He was on good terms with popes, ...

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(her "only job"), which later became her own publisher and part of Orion Publishing Group, which publishes her works in the UK.Antonia Fraser
"Antonia Fraser: Author Q&A"
, Orion Books, 2004–2007 pdated 2009 Retrieved 9 April 2009. Her first major work, published by

, was ''

Mary, Queen of Scots Mary, Queen of Scots (8 December 1542 – 8 February 1587), also known as Mary Stuart or Mary I of Scotland, was Queen of Scotland from 14 December 1542 until her forced abdication in 1567. The only surviving legitimate child of James V of S ...

'' (1969), which was followed by several other biographies, including ''Cromwell, Our Chief of Men'' (1973)."History Books by Antonia Fraser"
an
"Other Books by Antonia Fraser"
at ''AntoniaFraser.com'', Antonia Fraser, 2007; retrieved 9 April 2009

, ''Orion Books'', 2004–2007 pdated 2009 9 April 2009. Fraser won the Wolfson History Award in 1984 for ''The Weaker Vessel'', a study of women's lives in 17th-century England. From 1988 to 1989, she was president of English PEN, and she chaired its Writers in Prison Committee. She also has written

detective novel Detective fiction is a subgenre of crime fiction and mystery fiction in which an investigator or a detective—whether professional, amateur or retired—investigates a crime, often murder. The detective genre began around the same time as spec ...

s, the most popular involving a character named

Jemima Shore Jemima Shore is a fictional character created by Antonia Fraser, and is portrayed as TV's consummately professional investigative journalist. She is featured in a series of crime novels. Novels * ''Quiet as a Nun'' (1977) * ''The Wild Island'' ...

, and they were adapted into the television series ''

Jemima Shore Investigates ''Jemima Shore Investigates'' is a British mystery television series which originally aired in twelve episodes in 1983. It is based on a series of novels by Antonia Fraser about Jemima Shore, a crime-solving television presenter.Brunsdale p.361- ...

'', which aired in the UK in 1983. From 1983 to 1984, she was president of

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's Sir Walter Scott Club."Our President in 1983/84 was: Lady Antonia Fraser"
biography, ''

Sir

Walter Scott Sir Walter Scott, 1st Baronet (15 August 1771 – 21 September 1832), was a Scottish novelist, poet, playwright and historian. Many of his works remain classics of European and Scottish literature, notably the novels ''Ivanhoe'', '' Rob Roy' ...

Club'', n.d. Retrieved 8 April 2009. Fraser's study, ''The Warrior Queens'' (1989), is an account of military royal women since the days of

Boadicea Boudica or Boudicca (, known in Latin chronicles as Boadicea or Boudicea, and in Welsh as ()), was a queen of the ancient British Iceni tribe, who led a failed uprising against the conquering forces of the Roman Empire in AD 60 or 61. She ...

and

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. In 1992, a year after Alison Weir's book ''The Six Wives of Henry VIII'', she published a book with the same title. She chronicled the life and times of Charles II in a well-reviewed 1979 eponymous biography. The book was cited as an influence on the 2003 BBC/ A&E mini-series, ''Charles II: The Power & the Passion'', in a featurette on the DVD, by Rufus Sewell who played the title character. Fraser served as editor for many monarchical biographies, including those featured in the ''Kings and Queens of England'' and ''Royal History of England'' series, and, in 1996, she also published a book entitled ''The Gunpowder Plot: Terror and Faith in 1605'', which won both the St. Louis Literary Award and the Crime Writers' Association (CWA) Non-Fiction Gold Dagger.Antonia Fraser
''The Gunpowder Plot''
, 2007, Antonia Fraser website; retrieved 13 June 2008. Her biography, '' Marie Antoinette: The Journey'' (2001, 2002), was adapted for the film ''

Marie Antoinette Marie Antoinette Josèphe Jeanne (; ; née Maria Antonia Josepha Johanna; 2 November 1755 – 16 October 1793) was the last queen of France before the French Revolution. She was born an archduchess of Austria, and was the penultimate child ...

'' (2006), directed by Sofia Coppola, with Kirsten Dunst in the title role, and ''Love and

Louis XIV , house = Bourbon , father = Louis XIII , mother = Anne of Austria , birth_date = , birth_place = Château de Saint-Germain-en-Laye, Saint-Germain-en-Laye, France , death_date = , death_place = Palace of Ve ...

: The Women in the Life of the Sun King'' (2006).

Related experience

Fraser was a contestant on the

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panel game '' My Word!'' Cf.
My Word!
', BBC Radio 4, BBC, 9 April 2009. from 1979 to 1990. She serves as a judge for the Enid McLeod Literary Prize, awarded by the Franco-British Society, previously winning that prize for her biography ''

'' (2001)."Benefits"
Franco-British Society, 2008. Retrieved 9 April 2009.Alex Danchev
"They Remember, But Others Forget"
'' Times Higher Education Supplement'', News Corporation, 2 March 2007. Retrieved 13 June 2008. Lady Antonia Fraser is a Vice-President of

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Memoir

Fraser's memoir ''Must You Go? My Life with Harold Pinter'' was published in January 2010 and she read a shortened version as BBC Radio Four's ''Book of the Week'' that month."Antonia Fraser to tell Harold Pinter 'love story'
Historical biographer will publish her 'portrait of a marriage' to the Nobel laureate in January 2010", ''The Guardian'', 9 June 2009. Retrieved 19 June 2009. Michael Billington's authorised biography of Pinter (''Harold Pinter'', pp. 271–72). It was the Frasers' marital union that was dissolved in 1977.">Michael Billington (critic)">Michael Billington's authorised biography of Pinter (''Harold Pinter'', pp. 271–72). It was the Frasers' marital union that was dissolved in 1977./ref> At the Cheltenham Literary Festival on 17 October 2010, Lady Antonia announced that her next work would be on the subject of the Great Reform Bill 1832. She is no longer planning a biography of

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, as this subject has already been extensively covered.

Perspective and criticism

Fraser acknowledges she is "less interested in ideas than in 'the people who led nations' and so on. I don't think I could ever have written a history of political thought or anything like that. I'd have to come at it another way."

Marriages and later life

From 1956 until their divorce in 1977, she was married to Sir Hugh Fraser (1918–1984), a descendant of Scottish aristocracy 14 years her senior and a Roman Catholic Conservative Unionist MP in the

House of Commons The House of Commons is the name for the elected lower house of the bicameral parliaments of the United Kingdom and Canada. In both of these countries, the Commons holds much more legislative power than the nominally upper house of parliament. ...

(sitting for

Stafford Stafford () is a market town and the county town of Staffordshire, in the West Midlands region of England. It lies about north of Wolverhampton, south of Stoke-on-Trent and northwest of Birmingham. The town had a population of 70,145 in ...

), who was a friend of the American

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."Sir Hugh Fraser Dead; Long a Tory Legislator"
Obituaries, ''

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'', 7 March 1984, 13 June 2008. They had six children: three sons, Benjamin, Damian, and Orlando; and three daughters,

Rebecca Fraser Rebecca Rose Fraser (born May 1957) is a British writer and broadcaster. She is a former president of the Brontë Society. She is the author of the introductions to the Everyman's Library editions of '' Shirley'' and '' The Professor''. Her ...

, wife of barrister Edward Fitzgerald, QC, Flora Fraser and Natasha Fraser-Cavassoni. All three daughters are writers and biographers. Benjamin Fraser works for JPMorgan, Damian Fraser is the managing director of the investment banking firm UBS AG (formerly S.G. Warburg) in

Mexico Mexico ( Spanish: México), officially the United Mexican States, is a country in the southern portion of North America. It is bordered to the north by the United States; to the south and west by the Pacific Ocean; to the southeast by Guate ...

, and Orlando Fraser is a barrister specializing in

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(Wroe). Antonia Fraser has 18 grandchildren. On 22 October 1975, Hugh and Antonia Fraser, together with

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, who was visiting them at their

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home, in Kensington, west

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, were almost blown up by an IRA car bomb placed under the wheels of his Jaguar, which had been triggered to go off at 9 am when he left the house; the bomb exploded, killing the cancer researcher,

Gordon Hamilton Fairley Gordon Hamilton Fairley DM, FRCP (20 April 1930 – 23 October 1975) was a professor of medical oncology. Born and raised in Australia, he moved to the United Kingdom, where he studied and worked. He was killed by a Provisional Irish Republican ...

. Fairley, a neighbour of the Frasers, had been walking his dog, when he noticed something amiss and stopped to examine the bomb."Timeline: 1974–75: The Year London Blew Up"
History,

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, 27 August 2007; retrieved 8 April 2009. In 1975, she began an affair with playwright

, who was then married to the actress Vivien Merchant. In 1977, after she had been living with Pinter for two years, the Frasers' union was legally dissolved. Merchant spoke about her distress publicly to the press, which quoted her cutting remarks about her rival, but she resisted divorcing Pinter. In 1980, after Merchant signed divorce papers, Fraser and Pinter married. After the deaths of both their spouses, Fraser and Pinter were married by a Jesuit priest, Fr. Michael Campbell-Johnson, in the Roman Catholic Church. Harold Pinter died from cancer on 24 December 2008, aged 78. Lady Antonia Fraser lives in the London district of

, in the

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, south of Notting Hill Gate, in the Fraser family home, where she still writes in her fourth-floor study.Antonia Fraser
"Sofia's Choice"
'' Vanity Fair'', November 2006, Condé Nast Publications; retrieved 9 April 2009. Lady Antonia Fraser is a Vice-President of the Royal Stuart Society.

Honours

Fraser was appointed

Commander of the Order of the British Empire The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire is a British order of chivalry, rewarding contributions to the arts and sciences, work with charitable and welfare organisations, and public service outside the civil service. It was established ...

(CBE) in the 1999 Birthday Honours and promoted to Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire (DBE) in the

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for services to literature. She was appointed a Member of the Order of the Companions of Honour (CH) in the 2018 New Year Honours for services to literature.

The Lady Antonia Fraser Archive in the British Library

Lady Antonia Fraser's uncatalogued papers (relating to her "Early Writing", "Fiction", and "Non-Fiction") are on loan at the

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.Loan No. 110B/1–19: Lady Antonia Fraser Archive
, British Library Manuscripts Catalogue, British Library, 1993– , 8 April 2009. Papers by and relating to Lady Antonia Fraser are also catalogued as part of the Harold Pinter Archive, which is part of its permanent collection of Additional Manuscripts.

Awards

James Tait Black Memorial Prize The James Tait Black Memorial Prizes are literary prizes awarded for literature written in the English language. They, along with the Hawthornden Prize, are Britain's oldest literary awards. Based at the University of Edinburgh in Scotland, U ...

(1969), for her book ''

''. * Wolfson History Prize (1984), for her book ''The Weaker Vessel''. * Crime Writers' Association Macallan Gold Dagger for Non-Fiction (1996), for her book ''The Gunpowder Plot''."Gold Daggers"
, Crime Writers' Association, n.d., 13 June 2008. * St. Louis Literary Award from the Saint Louis University Library Associates. * Historical Association

Norton Medlicott Medal The Medlicott Medal for Service to History is awarded annually by the Historical Association. The award is named for William Norton Medlicott, and was first made in 1985. Twenty-seven men have won the award, and nine women. Winners *2020 Rana Mit ...

(2000). * Enid McLeod Literary Prize (2001), from the Franco-British Society, for ''

''."Enid McLeod Literary Prize"
'' Book Trust'', 2007. Retrieved 9 April 2009.

Works

Non-fiction works

* '' Mary Queen of Scots'' (1969). . ** Reissued, Phoenix paperback, 2001; . ** 40th-anniversary edition, reissued Orion paperback, 7 May 2009; . * ''Dolls'' (1963) * ''A History of Toys'' (1966) * ''

Cromwell, Our Chief of Men ''Cromwell, Our Chief of Men'' by Antonia Fraser is a biography of Oliver Cromwell. The title is from a poem praising Cromwell by John Milton, perhaps the most famous and accomplished poet of the English Commonwealth. Fraser's goal is to "r ...

'' (1973); ** Also published as ''Cromwell: The Lord Protector''. . * ''King James VI and I'' (1974) * ''The Lives of the Kings and Queens of England'' (1975) ditor* ''King Charles II'' (1979) ** Also published as ''Royal Charles: Charles II and the Restoration'' and ''Charles II''; . * ''Heroes and Heroines'' (1980) * ''The Weaker Vessel: Woman's Lot in Seventeenth-century England'' (1984) * ''The Warrior Queens: Boadicea's Chariot'' (1988), Weidenfeld and Nicolson, London. ** Also published as ''Warrior Queens: The Legends and Lives of Women Who have led Their Nations in War''. * ''The Six Wives of Henry VIII'' (London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1996); Orion, 1999, . ** Rpt. & updated edition, London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 2007. ** Also published as the Orion audio-book ''The Six Wives of Henry VIII'' (November 2006); . ** The first paperback edition is ''The Six Wives of Henry VIII'' (London: Mandarin, 1993); . ** The 1st American edition is entitled ''The Wives of Henry VIII''. New York: Knopf, 1992; . * '' The Gunpowder Plot: Terror and Faith in 1605'' (1996) ** Also published as ''Faith and Treason: The Gunpowder Plot''; . * ''Marie Antoinette'' (2001); ** Also published with the subtitle '' Marie Antoinette: The Journey'', (2002); . * ''Love and Louis XIV: The Women in the Life of the Sun King'' (2006); . * ''Must You Go? My Life with Harold Pinter'' (2010), London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson (Orion Books); . ** 1st U.S. edition, New York: Nan A. Talese/Doubleday; . ** 1st paperback edition London: Phoenix, 2010; ** Also published in audio & digital editions) - "Shortlisted for Galaxy National Book Awards: Non-Fiction Book of the Year 2010."''Must You Go?''
, Shortlist for Non-Fiction Book of The Year award category (Book 5), Galaxy National Book Awards, 2010. Retrieved 6 December 2010. * ''Perilous Question: The Drama of the Great Reform Bill 1832'' (2013); * ''My History. A Memoir of Growing Up'' (2015), New York: Doubleday. * ''Our Israeli Diary: Of That Time, Of That Place'' (2017); * ''The King and the Catholics: The Fight for Rights, 1829'' (2018); * ''The Case of the Married Woman: Caroline Norton: A 19th Century Heroine Who Wanted Justice for Women'' (2021); * ''The Antonia Fraser Collection'' (2013)

Historical fiction

* ''King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table'' (1954) * ''Robin Hood'' (1955)

Jemima Shore novels

* ''Quiet as a Nun'' (1977) * ''The Wild Island'' (1978). Also published as ''Tartan Tragedy''. * ''A Splash of Red'' (1981) * ''Cool Repentance'' (1982) * ''Oxford Blood'' (1985) * ''Jemima Shore's First Case'' (1986) * ''Your Royal Hostage'' (1987) * ''The Cavalier Case'' (1990) * ''Jemima Shore at the Sunny Grave'' (1991) * ''Political Death'' (1995) * ''Quiet as a Nun / Tartan Tragedy / Splash of Red'' (omnibus) (2005) * ''Jemima Shore on the Case'' (omnibus) (2006)

Editor

* ''Scottish Love Poems'' (1975) * ''The Lives of the Kings and Queens of England'' (1975) * ''Love Letters'' (1976) * ''The Pleasure of Reading'' (1992) * ''A Red Rose or A Satin Heart'' (2010)

Notes

External links

*
AntoniaFraser.com
' – Official website of Antonia Fraser.
"Antonia Fraser"
– Author webpage at Orion Publishing Group (UK publisher)
"Antonia Fraser"
– Author webpage at

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(US publisher)
Antonia Fraser
– Client page at Curtis Brown Literary and Talent Agency
"Antonia's Choice"
– In ''

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'' on

(first broadcast 27 July 2008)
''Must You Go?'' extract
– "First Night" (Chapter One), Galaxy National Book Awards (Phoenix edn) * Translated Penguin Book – at
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reference site of early first edition Penguin Books. {{DEFAULTSORT:Fraser, Antonia 1932 births Living people

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