Fraser, (Lady) Antonia

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FRASER, (Lady) Antonia

FRASER, (Lady) Antonia. British, b. 1932. Genres: Mystery/Crime/Suspense, Children's fiction, History, Biography. Career: Member, Arts Council, 1970-72; Chairman, Committee of Mgmt., Society of Authors, London, 1974-75; General Ed., Kings and Queens of England series, Weidenfeld and Nicolson, publishers, London, 1974-75; Chairman, Crime Writers Association, 1985-86, 1986-87; President, English P.E.N., 1988-89. Publications: King Arthur, 1954; Robin Hood, 1955; Dolls, 1963; History of Toys, 1966; Mary, Queen of Scots, 1969; Cromwell Our Chief of Men (in U.S. as Cromwell the Lord Protector), 1973; Mary, Queen of Scots, and the Historians, 1974; King James VI and I, 1974; King Charles II (in U.S. as Royal Charles), 1979; The Weaker Vessel: Woman's Lot in Seventeenth Century England, 1984; Boadicea's Chariot: The Warrior Queens (in U.S. as The Warrior Queens), 1988; The Six Wives of Henry VIII, 1992; The Gunpowder Plot (in US as Treason and Faith), 1996; Marie Antoinette: The Journey, 2001. MYSTERIES: Quiet as a Nun, 1977; The Wild Island, 1978; A Splash of Red, 1981; Cool Repentance, 1982; Oxford Blood, 1985; Jemima Shore's First Case, 1986; Your Royal Hostage, 1987; The Cavalier Case, 1990; Jemima Shore at the Sunny Grave and Other Stories, 1991; Political Death, 1995. EDITOR: Scottish Love Poems, 1975; Love Letters, 1976; Mary, Queen of Scots in Poetry, 1981; Oxford and Oxfordshire in Verse, 1982; The Pleasure of Reading, 1992; The Lives of the Kings and Queens of England, 1993; The Stuarts, 2000; The Wars of the Roses, 2000; The Houses of Hanover and Saxe-Coburg-Gotha, 2000. Address: c/o Curtis Brown Group Ltd, Haymarket House, 28/29 Haymarket, London SW1Y 4SP, England.