Antonia Margaret Caroline Pakenham (1932-08-27) 27 August 1932 (age 91) London, England
Alma mater
Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford
Genre
Biography, detective fiction
Years active
1969–present
Spouse
Hugh Fraser
(m. 1956; div. 1977)
Harold Pinter
(m. 1980; died 2008)
Children
6, including Rebecca Fraser and Flora Fraser
Parents
The 7th Earl of Longford (father)
Elizabeth Harman (mother)
Antonia Fraser's voice
from the BBC programme Desert Island Discs, 27 July 2008.[1]
Lady Antonia Margaret Caroline Fraser, CH, DBE, FRSL (néePakenham; born 27 August 1932) is a British author of history, novels, biographies and detective fiction. She is the widow of the 2005 Nobel Laureate in Literature, Harold Pinter (1930–2008), and prior to his death was also known as Lady Antonia Pinter.[2][3][4]
^"Antonia Fraser". Desert Island Discs. 27 July 2008. BBC Radio 4. Retrieved 18 January 2014.
^Mel Gussow, "The Lady Is a Writer", The New York Times Magazine, 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", Guardian, Culture: Books, Guardian Media Group, 13 June 2008; retrieved 8 April 2009. (Includes photograph of Antonia Fraser's study.)
^"Non-Fiction: Author: Antonia Fraser" Archived 20 November 2012 at the Wayback Machine, Orion Books, 2004–2007 [updated 2009]; retrieved 9 April 2009.
Lady Antonia Margaret Caroline Fraser, CH, DBE, FRSL (née Pakenham; born 27 August 1932) is a British author of history, novels, biographies and detective...
Day Company. Fraser, Antonia (2001). Marie Antoinette (1st ed.). New York: N.A. Talese/Doubleday. ISBN 978-0-385-48948-5. Fraser, Antonia (2002). Marie...
attended Lincoln's Inn, but the Inn's archives retain no record of him. AntoniaFraser concludes that it is likely that he did train at one of the London Inns...
Daniel, born in 1958. He left Merchant in 1975 and married author Lady AntoniaFraser in 1980. Pinter's career as a playwright began with a production of...
Historians AntoniaFraser, Diarmaid MacCulloch and Derek Wilson believe that the portrait is likely to depict Elizabeth Seymour. AntoniaFraser has argued...
French royal family and the date of the saying's origin. According to AntoniaFraser, the notorious story of the ignorant princess was first said 100 years...
Jemima Shore is a fictional character created by AntoniaFraser, and is portrayed as TV's consummately professional investigative journalist. She is featured...
These include David Starkey, feminist activist Karen Lindsey, Lady AntoniaFraser, Alison Weir, Carolly Erickson, Alison Plowden, Susan James and Linda...
professionalism that endeared him to his fellow conspirators. The author AntoniaFraser describes Fawkes as "a tall, powerfully built man, with thick reddish-brown...
aired in twelve episodes in 1983. It is based on a series of novels by AntoniaFraser about Jemima Shore, a crime-solving television presenter. Actors who...
Chapuys, who referred to Mistress Shelton. According to biographer AntoniaFraser, this was Margaret Shelton. Chapuys was always at court when in England...
Kinge Henry the Eyght father and mother to Elizabeth Quene of England". AntoniaFraser, The Wives of Henry VIII (Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1992), p. 119 Letters...
propose Louis Stanislas' alleged impotence (according to biographer AntoniaFraser) or his unwillingness to sleep with his wife due to her poor personal...
Jemima Shore at the Sunny Grave And Other Stories is a book by AntoniaFraser. First published in 1991, it is a collection of nine short stories, featuring...
at York in 1586, a fact which in the opinion of historian and author AntoniaFraser, "could hardly have failed to leave a stark impression upon the Wintour...
Walsingham. In The CW series Reign, Amy Brenneman portrays Marie de Guise. AntoniaFraser, Mary Queen of Scots, pp. 3 and 12. Joseph Bain, Hamilton Papers, vol...
meant that when he died in 1605, his estate was £11,500 in debt. Author AntoniaFraser suggests that as a young man Francis became "resentful of his father's...
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