Lady Antonia Fraser tells Mary's story movingly and yet with scholarship, insight and balance. Beautiful, flamboyant Mary Queen of Scots had a formidable intellect but her political sense - formed at the absolute court of France - plunged her country into a maelstrom of. Antonia Fraser's 'Mary Queen of Scots' is a comprehensive and engaging biography of one of history's most fascinating and controversial figures. This is a fine biography, sympathetic without sentimentality, and with a keen awareness of the texture of its subject's world * Literary Review * She gives us imaginative vitality and the historical edifice at once - Norman MacKenzie * International Review of Scottish Studies *īefore biography was fashionable, Antonia Fraser made the past popular * Guardian *įraser is at her best here, lucid, authoritative and compassionate * Sunday Times * Mary Queen of Scots Tapa blanda 1 septiembre 1993 Edición en Inglés de Antonia Fraser (Autor) Visita la página de Amazon Antonia Fraser Encuentra todos los libros, lee sobre el autor y más.
Lady Fraser brings intuitive insight and humble self projection to this period without losing historical balance. The true golden age of British biography really began with the publication of Mary Queen of Scots and it won't end so long as Fraser keeps tapping away on her ancient Smith Corona - Andrew Roberts * Daily Telegraph * launched Fraser's now award-studded career, and single-handedly created a new publishing genre. One of the greatest international bestsellers of the post-war period, Mary Queen of Scots.
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