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Fraser, Antonia, 1932-
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Fraser, Antonia, 1932- -- Childhood and youth.
Fraser, Antonia, 1932- -- Family.
Fraser, Antonia, 1932- -- Homes and haunts.
Women historians -- Great Britain -- Biography.
Historians -- Great Britain -- Biography.
Women authors, English -- 20th century -- Biography.
Authors, English -- 20th century -- Biography.
Women novelists, English -- 20th century -- Biography.
Novelists, English -- 20th century -- Biography.
Oxford (England) -- Biography.
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Fraser, Antonia, 1932-
Fraser, Antonia, 1932- -- Childhood and youth.
Fraser, Antonia, 1932- -- Family.
Fraser, Antonia, 1932- -- Homes and haunts.
Women historians -- Great Britain -- Biography.
Historians -- Great Britain -- Biography.
Women authors, English -- 20th century -- Biography.
Authors, English -- 20th century -- Biography.
Women novelists, English -- 20th century -- Biography.
Novelists, English -- 20th century -- Biography.
Oxford (England) -- Biography.
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My
history
: a
memoir
of
growing
up
/ Antonia Fraser.
by
Fraser, Antonia, 1932-
Doubleday Canada, c2015.
Call #:
921 F8417mh
Subjects
Fraser, Antonia, 1932- -- Childhood and youth.
Fraser, Antonia, 1932- -- Family.
Fraser, Antonia, 1932- -- Homes and haunts.
Women historians -- Great Britain -- Biography.
Historians -- Great Britain -- Biography.
Women authors, English -- 20th century -- Biography.
Authors, English -- 20th century -- Biography.
Women novelists, English -- 20th century -- Biography.
Novelists, English -- 20th century -- Biography.
Oxford (England) -- Biography.
ISBN:
9780385685177 (hc., Doubleday Canada ed.)
9780385540100 (hc., Nan A. Telese Doubleday USA ed.)
0385540108 (hc., Nan A. Telese Doubleday USA ed.)
Description:
xi, 268 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.
Notes:
"Originally published in Great Britain by Weidenfeld & Nicolson, London, in 2015"--Title page verso.
Contents:
Prologue: Things I remember -- The sound of bells --
My
island story -- Before-the-war -- Hidey holes -- She dragon -- On our bikes -- Girlhood encountered -- Are we really Irish? -- Nice Catholic friends -- Gap year or two -- Bringing myself out -- Oxford Miss -- Jeune fille in publishing -- I'm going to marry you! -- Epilogue: Reader, I wrote it.
Summary:
"Antonia Fraser's
memoir
of
growing
up
is not only an attempt to recapture the experiences of her Oxford childhood and youth -- in Shakespeare's phrase, to 'call back yesterday, bid time return.' It is also a chronicle of the progress of her love of
history
since her first discovery of it as a private pleasure when she was a child in the 1930s--her
history
, as she believed it to be, for the study of
history
(as her books subsequently attest) has always been an essential part of the enjoyment of life. Antonia's mother, born Elizabeth Harman, was the daughter of a Harley Street doctor; her father, Frank Pakenham, was the second son of the Earl of Longford. With the coming of war, Antonia's happy childhood in the Sussex of Puck of Pook's Hill was succeeded by an evacuation to an Elizabethan manor house near Oxford, which had a profound effect on her imagination. A North Oxford upbringing, including life at the Dragon School, followed, and later a Catholic convent which she attended as a Protestant and emerged as a Catholic. In the meantime, holidays included adventures with relations in Anglo-Ireland at Dunsany Castle and Pakenham Hall, before rather less glamorous work experience as 'Miss Tony' in the hat department of a famous London store. After Oxford University came a job in publishing, a fortunate coincidence for one whose sole ambition was to write--and to write
history
. Her
memoir
, told with inimitable humor and style, is an unforgettable account of the making of a great narrative historian. Lady Antonia Margaret Caroline Fraser is an author of
history
, novels, biographies and detective fiction. She is the widow of dramatist Harold Pinter and she is the author of the
memoir
Must you go? :
my
life with Harold Pinter"--Provided by publisher.
Genre:
Autobiographies.
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