Lady Antonia Fraser tells Mary's story movingly and yet with scholarship, insight and balance. This is a fine biography, sympathetic without sentimentality, and with a keen awareness of the texture of its subject's world * Literary Review * She gives us imaginative vitality and the historical edifice at once - Norman MacKenzie * International Review of Scottish Studies *īefore biography was fashionable, Antonia Fraser made the past popular * Guardian *įraser is at her best here, lucid, authoritative and compassionate * Sunday Times * 1984 by Antonia Fraser (Author) 538 ratings Book 2 of 14: Women in History See all formats and editions Kindle Edition £4.49 Read with Our Free App Audiobook £0.00 Free with your Audible trial Hardcover £5.00 12 Used from £2.21 1 Collectible from £19.99 Paperback £13.55 4 Used from £9.05 14 New from £11. Lady Fraser brings intuitive insight and humble self projection to this period without losing historical balance. The true golden age of British biography really began with the publication of Mary Queen of Scots and it won't end so long as Fraser keeps tapping away on her ancient Smith Corona - Andrew Roberts * Daily Telegraph * launched Fraser's now award-studded career, and single-handedly created a new publishing genre. read this on Ashfield - donated to PV library April 2022 ( ) I was inspired to read this book after seeing the film about Mary last.
One of the greatest international bestsellers of the post-war period, Mary Queen of Scots.
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