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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 *

Lady Fraser brings intuitive insight and humble self projection to this period without losing historical balance. 1994 by Lady Antonia Fraser (Author) 497 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 £3.15 20 Used from £0.36 Paperback £10.00 24 Used from £0. 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 * Antonia Fraser Mary Queen Of Scots Hardcover 17 Feb.

launched Fraser's now award-studded career, and single-handedly created a new publishing genre. One of the greatest international bestsellers of the post-war period, Mary Queen of Scots.