[English History Collection] – Fraser, Antonia.

The Wives of Henry VIII.

Reprinted Edition. New York, Knopf, 1993. Octavo. IX, 479 pages. Original Hardcover with original dustjacket in protective collector’s mylar. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear.

Lady Antonia Margaret Caroline Fraser, DBE (born 27 August 1932), née Pakenham, is a British author of history, novels, biographies and detective fiction. She is the widow of the 2005 Nobel Laureate in Literature, Harold Pinter (1930–2008), and prior to his death was also known as Antonia Pinter. Her first major work, published by Weidenfeld & Nicolson, was Mary, Queen of Scots (1969), which was followed by several other biographies, including Cromwell, Our Chief of Men (1973). She won the Wolfson History Award in 1984 for The Weaker Vessel, a study of women’s lives in 17th century England. From 1988 to 1989, she was president of English PEN, and she chaired its Writers in Prison Committee. More recently, Fraser published The Warrior Queens, the story of various military royal women since the days of Boadicea and Cleopatra. In 1992, a year after Alison Weir’s book The Six Wives of Henry VIII, she published a book with the same title. Two of the most recent of her thirteen non-fiction books are Marie Antoinette: The Journey (2001, 2002), which has been made into the film Marie Antoinette (2006), directed by Sofia Coppola, with Kirsten Dunst in the title role, and Love and Louis XIV: The Women in the Life of the Sun King (2006). Fraser acknowledges she is “less interested in ideas than in ‘the people who led nations and so on. I don’t think I could ever have written a history of political thought or anything like that. I’d have to come at it another way.’” (Wikipedia).

• Keywords: English History Collection · Library & Collection Building
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9780394585383
• Inventory Number: 43832AB