Lives in previous centuries for women are largely a matter of class. It would have been fun to have been a rich, privileged woman in the 18th century, but no fun at all to be her maid.
From Antonia Fraser
King Charles II liked women's company and well as making love to them.
It can be a long gap between the emergence of fully researched historical biographies.
If I write that it was a cold day, you can be sure I know it was a cold day because Pepys told us.
The concentration in my book on Marie Antoinette's childhood and on her family influences. It is surprising how some books actually start with her arrival in France!
The clue to book jacket photography is to look friendly and approachable, but not too glamorous.
I'm very interested in good and evil and the moral natures of people.
I'm glad I was never an heiress.
I think there has been a great deal of valuable revisionism in women's history.
I think there's a tremendous split between people who've been through a war and people who haven't.
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