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Women''S Lot In Seventeenth-Century England

by Antonia Fraser
language: english
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, May of 2014 ‧
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The renowned historian and biographer Lady Antonia Fraser, author of Marie Antoinette, investigates the lot of women in seventeenth-century England. Drawing on period diaries, letters, and other papers, Fraser sketches portraits of a variety of women, both highborn and humble, during the tumultuous century between the death of Elizabeth and Queen Anne’s assumption of the throne.  More than a collection of female biographies, The Weaker Vessel offers fresh insight into its subjects’ attitudes and lives, with appearances by heiresses and dairy maids, holy women and prostitutes, criminals and educators, widows and witches, midwives and mothers, heroines, courtesans, prophetesses, businesswomen, ladies of the court, and that new breed, the actress.

"An almost encyclopedic chronicle of women in 17th century England...wives, warriors, heiresses, preachers... alive with anecdote after anecdote." - The New York Times Book Review

Weaker Vessel

Women''S Lot In Seventeenth-Century England

by Antonia Fraser

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ISBN: 9780804153416
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Release Date: May of 2014
Language: English
Format: eBook
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EAN: 9780804153416
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ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Antonia Fraser

Lady Antonia Fraser was born in 1932 into the British aristocracy, the daughter of the Earl and Countess of Longford, both eminent writers, supporters of the Labour Party, and converts to Catholicism. Since 1969, Antonia Fraser has written important historical works that have become international bestsellers and have been recognized with prestigious awards, such as the biography of Mary Stuart (Mary Queen of Scots, awarded the James Tait Black Memorial Prize); The Six Wives of Henry VIII; Marie Antoinette, The Journey (which received the Franco-British Society Prize and was adapted for film by Sofia Coppola); and her most recent work, Love and Louis XIV, The Women in the Life of the Sun King.
She was president of the British PEN Club and the Society of Authors. She received an honorary order in 1999 (Commander of the Order of the British Empire). She is married to the playwright Harold Pinter, Nobel Prize laureate in Literature.

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