Nonetheless, this is an expertly crafted, scholarly book, which not only examines the. Her most recent book is Must You Go?, celebrating her life with Harold Pinter, who died on Christmas Eve 2008. Occasionally the brevity of the text curtails the emotional impact of such thrilling or moving episodes. A great, detailed book on a beautiful Queen Mary Queen of Scotland was a smart, loyal woman who kept her faith through all triumphs. Antonia Fraser was made DBE in 2011 for her services to literature. I keep it on my shelf with my favorite historical fiction. While non-fiction, Mary Queen of Scots is so engrossing, you read it like a novel. She was awarded the Norton Medlicott Medal by the Historical Association in 2000. Antonia Fraser's Mary Queen of Scots is an amazing historical account of the full life of a woman in the Renaissance who -while born into her position-had to overcome limitations placed on her due to her sex. 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. 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).
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