Word: weaker
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When Harvard has the ball, the best Ivy rushing game will face the strongest running defense and one of the weaker league aerial shows will be matched against a less-than-stingy defensive backfield...
NONFICTION: Bloods, Wallace Terry The Chronicle of the Lodz Ghetto, 1941-1944, Lucjan Dobroszycki, Editor ∙Finding the Center, V.S. Naipaul ∙ "The Good War," Studs Terkel ∙The Weaker Vessel, Antonia Fraser ∙ Writers at Work, George Plimpton, Editor
Like the title of her 14th 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...
...Weaker Vessel took 12 years of research, although Fraser had written on British history before. She has penned biographies on James VI, James I and Charles II. Her biography of Mary Queen of Scots won the James Tait Black Prize for Biography in 1969. At Oxford University, Fraser studied history, which taught her "form and structure." Even with her experience in publishing and research, Fraser still found problems in using sources for her latest book. "My ideal source would be a diary of an illiterate woman. You always have to try and find those silent voices...
FRASER INDICATES that "the weaker vessel" was indeed a serious misnomer. While Fraser shows the suppression of women throughout history, her purpose is not propaganda...