Lady Antonia Fraser

Lady Antonia Fraser

(OD 1944)
Author

Lady Antonia Fraser (née Pakenham) (OD 1944) is an award-winning historian and author. She attended the Dragon between 1940 and 1944.

“I was at the Dragon School for four years –till 1944, twice as long as I was at any other school incidentally – and the first thing I want to say is that I was intensely happy here. Also, since I was here for such a long time compared to my other two schools, or indeed university, the Dragon School must certainly have marked me for life, for better, as I certainly believe… it was so wonderful to be a Dragon girl.”

Her first fictional work was the novel ‘King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table’ published in 1954. She went on to publish several critically acclaimed works of non-fiction starting with the 1966 published work ‘A History of Toys’. Her breakout non-fiction work was the 1969 published ‘Mary, Queen of Scots’, winner of the JT Black Prize for biography, a prize which had also been won by her mother in 1964. Antonia’s latest book ‘The Case of the Married Woman: Caroline Norton: A 19th Century Heroine Who Wanted Justice for Women’ will be published in May, 2021.

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