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Antonia Fraser Quotes: I hate the only one of my book jackets when I was made up professionally, my hair made into a smooth bell.
         

I hate the only one of my book jackets when I was made up professionally, my hair made into a smooth bell.


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I think there has been a great deal of valuable revisionism in women's history.



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The clue to book jacket photography is to look friendly and approachable, but not too glamorous.



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Lives in previous centuries for women are largely a matter of class. It would have been fun to have been a rich, privileged woman in the 18th century, but no fun at all to be her maid.



I am re-reading Henry James as a change from history. I began with Daisy Miller, and I've just finished Washington Square. What a brilliant, painful book.

I am re-reading Henry James as a change from history. I began with Daisy Miller, and I've just finished Washington Square. What a brilliant, painful book.



My advantage as a woman and a human being has been in having a mother who believed strongly in women's education. She was an early undergraduate at Oxford, and her own mother was a doctor.

My advantage as a woman and a human being has been in having a mother who believed strongly in women's education. She was an early undergraduate at Oxford, and her own mother was a doctor.



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I can't read historical fiction because I find the real thing so much more interesting.



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That is my major concern: writers who are in prison for writing.



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The concentration in my book on Marie Antoinette's childhood and on her family influences. It is surprising how some books actually start with her arrival in France!



Normally I make myself swim, do exercises. For zest I like going to the cinema.

Normally I make myself swim, do exercises. For zest I like going to the cinema.



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I decided as usual that justice lay in the middle - that is to say nowhere.





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