The book was cited as an influence on the 2003 BBC/A&E mini-series, Charles II: The Power & the Passion, in a featurette on the DVD, by Rufus Sewell who played the title character. She chronicled the life and times of Charles II in a well-reviewed 1979 eponymous biography.
In 1992, a year after Alison Weir's book The Six Wives of Henry VIII, she published a book with the same title. She also has written detective novels, the most popular involving a character named Jemima Shore, and they were adapted into the television series Jemima Shore Investigates, which aired in the UK in 1983.įrom 1983 to 1984, she was president of Edinburgh's Sir Walter Scott Club.įraser's study, The Warrior Queens (1989), is an account of military royal women since the days of Boadicea and Cleopatra. From 1988 to 1989, she was president of English PEN, and she chaired its Writers in Prison Committee. Fraser won the Wolfson History Award in 1984 for The Weaker Vessel, a study of women's lives in 17th-century England. Her first major work, published by Weidenfeld & Nicolson, was Mary, Queen of Scots (1969), which was followed by several other biographies, including Cromwell, Our Chief of Men (1973). Careerįraser began work as an "all-purpose assistant" for George Weidenfeld at Weidenfeld & Nicolson (her "only job"), which later became her own publisher and part of Orion Publishing Group, which publishes her works in the UK. Prior to going to Oxford in 1950, she was a debutante in the London social season.
She was educated at the Dragon School in Oxford, St Mary's School, Ascot, and Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford the last was also her mother's alma mater. Before his own conversion in his thirties following a nervous breakdown in the Army, as she explains: "My father was Protestant Church of Ireland, and my mother was Unitarian up to the age of 20 when she abandoned it." In response to criticism of her writing about Oliver Cromwell, she has said, "I have no Catholic blood". Her "maternal grandparents were Unitarians – a non-conformist faith with a strong emphasis on social reform. As a teenager, she and her siblings converted to Catholicism, following the conversions of their parents.
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