I am re-reading Henry James as a change from history. I began with Daisy Miller, and I've just finished Washington Square. What a brilliant, painful book.
From Antonia Fraser
Mary Queen of Scots was my first love, and that is always something special.
We are privileged. There are poor people out there. We must to do something to make them privileged.
That is my major concern: writers who are in prison for writing.
People in my books tend to get their just deserts, even if not at the hands of the police.
Normally I make myself swim, do exercises. For zest I like going to the cinema.
Ninety-seven is my lucky number.
My mother, who was quite sharp when I was young, became utterly mild.
My mother was a politician in my formative years.
My advantage as a woman and a human being has been in having a mother who believed strongly in women's education. She was an early undergraduate at Oxford, and her own mother was a doctor.
4 perspectives
3 perspectives
2 perspectives
1 perspectives