Lady Antonia Fraser, Author, Antonia Fraser, Author Alfred A Knopf Inc $25 (479p) ISBN 978-0-394-58538-3
Fraser ( Mary, Queen of Scots ) here turns to the reign of Henry VIII, who ruled from 1509-1547, and the six women he married: Catherine of Aragon, Anne Boleyn, Jane Seymour, Anna of Cleves, Katherine Howard and Catherine Parr. From her scrupulous...
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Lady Antonia Fraser, Author, Antonia Fraser, Author Vintage Books USA $18.95 (496p) ISBN 978-0-679-73001-9
Fraser's scrupulously researched recuperative study of Henry VIII's six queens makes a major contribution to feminist scholarship. Illustrations. (Jan.)
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Lady Antonia Fraser, Author, Antonia Fraser, Author Knopf Publishing Group $22.95 (383p) ISBN 978-0-394-54939-2
In a series of cleverly linked biographies, Fraser here tells the stories of a long line of history's ``warrior queens,'' at the same time exploring and illuminating the myths, paradoxes and ambiguities that attend their status as aggressive female...
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Lady Antonia Fraser, Author, Antonia Fraser, Author Bantam Books $19.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-553-09297-4
The whole is less than the sum of its parts in this disappointing collection of nine tales, four featuring series heroine Jemima Shore (a TV investigative reporter seen most recently in The Cavalier Case ) and five with various first-person...
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Lady Antonia Fraser, Author, Antonia Fraser, Author Bantam Books $21.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-553-09964-5
Lady Imogen Swain, once a Cecil Beaton beauty, now annoys Harrod's employees by trying to return 30-year-old ball gowns in this highly civilized, unexpectedly tepid tale of political doings in Britain. During a particularly nasty general election...
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Lady Antonia Fraser, Author, Antonia Fraser, Author Nan A. Talese $27.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-385-47189-3
Although the ""Gunpowder Plot"" of 1605 to blow up Parliament as it was being opened by James I was foiled, the holiday it spawned, Guy Fawkes Day, is still marked each November 5. With political-religious terrorism now a hazard of everyday life,...
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