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Lady Caroline Lamb: A Free Spirit by Antonia Fraser
56.00 NZD
70.00 (20% off)
Category: Biography/Memoir
From the outset, Caroline Lamb had a rebellious nature. From childhood she grew increasingly troublesome, experimenting with sedatives like laudanum, and she had a special governess to control her. She also had a merciless wit and talent for mimicry. She spoke French and German fluently, knew Greek and ...Show more
Lady Caroline Lamb - A Free Spirit by Antonia Fraser
30.00 NZD
Category: History
The vivid and dramatic life of Lady Caroline Lamb, whose scandalous love affair with Lord Byron overshadowed her own creativity and desire to break free from society's constraints. From the outset, Caroline Lamb had a rebellious nature. From childhood she grew increasingly troublesome, experimenting ...Show more
Love and Louis XIV by Antonia Fraser
70.00 NZD
Category: History
This book centres around the Sun King and his relationship with numerous and fascinating women. There was the King's mother, Anne of Austria, to whom he was devoted; his first important mistress, Louise de la Valliere, who bore him several illegitimate children; Athenais Marquise de Montespan, who acted ...Show more
Marie Antoinette by Antonia Fraser
65.00 NZD
Category: Biography/Memoir
The new life of this legendary French queen by best-selling historian Antonia Fraser.
Must You Go? My Life with Harold Pinter by Antonia Fraser
30.00 NZD
Category: Biography/Memoir
I first saw Harold across a crowded room, but it was lunchtime, not some enchanted evening, and we did not speak. When Antonia Fraser met Harold Pinter she was a celebrated biographer and he was Britain's finest playwright. Both were already married - Pinter to the actress Vivien Merchant and Fraser to ...Show more
My History: A Memoir of Growing Up by Antonia Fraser
40.00 NZD
Category: Biography/Memoir
The title of Antonia Fraser's memoir of growing up has a double meaning. It is partly an attempt to recapture the experiences of her Oxford childhood and youth - in Shakespeare's phrase, to 'call back yesterday, bid time return'. But it is also intended as a chronicle of the progress of her love of hist ...Show more
The Case of the Married Woman: Caroline Norton by Antonia Fraser
30.00 NZD
Category: History
'Before biography was fashionable, Antonia Fraser made the past popular' Guardian'As a pure storyteller, Antonia Fraser has few equals' Sunday TimesCAROLINE NORTON, a nineteenth-century heroine who wanted justice for women.Poet, pamphleteer and artist's muse, Caroline Norton dazzled nineteenth-century s ...Show more
The Pleasure of Reading: 43 Writers on the Discovery of Reading and the Books That Inspired Them by Antonia Fraser
23.00 NZD
Category: Non-fiction
In this delightful collection forty acclaimed writers explain what first made them interested in literature, what inspired them to read and what makes them continue to do so. First published in 1992 in hardback only, original contributors include Margaret Atwood, J. G. Ballard, Melvyn Bragg, A. S. Byatt ...Show more
The Six Wives of Henry VIII by Antonia Fraser
30.00 NZD
Category: History | Series: Women in History
Antonia Fraser takes a sympathetic look at the lives of Henry VIII's wives. Taking each in turn, she portrays them as women of spirit, and looks beyond their tragic ends. Paperback (B-Format)
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