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...FRASER'S ENGAGING style succeeds where a conventional historian's might be tedious. She is a troubadour who effortlessly recounts a story she has exhaustively researched, and documented. The Weaker Vessel is a welcome addition to the slowly growing field of women's studies. It is also a warning that, as in the England of Elizabeth I, "it is easy to suppose in a time of freedom that the darker days of repression can never come again." This statement is made parenthetically, but it stands as the central motif of the book. As in 17th-century England, there are more...
LADY ANTONIA Fraser site in the Harvard Bookstore Cafe, graciously signing copies of her books, sipping white wine and smiling at the long line of admirerers. She sighs as a woman asks her to sign her daughter's copy. "My daughter keeps on writing books. I want her to have a baby." This is the same woman who writes of such heroines as Mary Queen of Scots. But she is quick to point out that she is also a wife and mother...
...book, The Weaker Vessel, the irony in her own life is apparent. She comes from a long literary tradition. Her mother, Elizabeth, has written biographies of Queen Victoria, Wellington, Byron and Elizabeth II. Her father, Frank Pakenham, was an Oxford don and inherited his title, the Earl of Longford. Fraser's siblings are novelists and poets...
...complete the portrait, Fraser was married in 1980 to Harold Pinter(her second marriage). Pinter looked ill-at-ease signing a copy of Betrayal in the Harvard Bookstore Cafe. He had eluded the crowds during his wife's appearance in Boston, until he was spotted in a corner. Asked about her, he replied, "I have nothing to say. I'm here escorting her as protector." Not that a woman who combines femininity and feminism needs a protector, but Fraser seems pleased nonetheless...
...interested in "the woman as heroine." While researching her book on Cromwell, Fraser came across women "who weren't stay-at-home types." Her title is ironic because "the women were admirable and spirited; they beat the system with their gallantry and guts." Unfortunately, the 17th century also marks the beginning of the "rise of the idea of a lady as someone who doesn't do any work...