My history: a memoir of growing up
(Book)
"Antonia Fraser's memoir of growing up is not only an attempt to recapture the experiences of her Oxford childhood and youth -- in Shakespeare's phrase, to 'call back yesterday, bid time return.' It is also a chronicle of the progress of her love of history since her first discovery of it as a private pleasure when she was a child in the 1930s--her history, as she believed it to be, for the study of history (as her books subsequently attest) has always been an essential part of the enjoyment of life. When Antonia received as a Christmas present a copy of Our Island Story by H.E. Marshall in 1936, it engendered a lifelong interest in history, firing her emotion to write the story that thirty years later became the globally bestselling Mary Queen of Scots. Antonia's mother, born Elizabeth Harman, was the daughter of a Harley Street doctor; her father, Frank Pakenham, was the second son of the Earl of Longford. With the coming of war, Antonia's happy childhood in the Sussex of Puck of Pook's Hill was succeeded by an evacuation to an Elizabethan manor house near Oxford, which had a profound effect on her imagination. A North Oxford upbringing, including life at the Dragon School, followed, and later a Catholic convent which she attended as a Protestant and emerged as a Catholic. In the meantime, holidays included adventures with relations in Anglo-Ireland at Dunsany Castle and Pakenham Hall, before rather less glamorous work experience as 'Miss Tony' in the hat department of a famous London store. After Oxford University came a job in publishing, a fortunate coincidence for one whose sole ambition was to write--and to write history. Her magical memoir, told with inimitable humor and style, is an unforgettable account of the making of a great narrative historian"--
Notes
Fraser, A. (2015). My history: a memoir of growing up. First United States edition. New York, Nan A. Talese/Doubleday.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation (style guide)Fraser, Antonia, 1932-. 2015. My History: A Memoir of Growing Up. New York, Nan A. Talese/Doubleday.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities Citation (style guide)Fraser, Antonia, 1932-, My History: A Memoir of Growing Up. New York, Nan A. Talese/Doubleday, 2015.
MLA Citation (style guide)Fraser, Antonia. My History: A Memoir of Growing Up. First United States edition. New York, Nan A. Talese/Doubleday, 2015.
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