Lady Antonia Fraser CH DBE
Lady Antonia Fraser is a world-renowned historical biographer and alumna of Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford University. She was made CBE in 1999, was awarded the Norton Medlicott Medal by the Historical Association in 2000 and made DBE in 2010. She is the widow of Nobel Prize-winning playwright, Harold Pinter.
An intellectual provocateur and longstanding champion of women’s history, Fraser’s debut biography, Mary Queen of Scots (1969), rattled critics with its humane and compulsively readable account of the sixteenth-century royal. Ever since, Fraser has been working to recuperate women from history who have been misunderstood or critically neglected, counting among them Caroline Norton, Lady Caroline Lamb, a motley cast of women from the seventeeth century, and Marie Antoinette (her biography was the inspiration for Sofia Coppola’s lush teenage film). She is a passionate advocate for education, supporting transformative reading programmes in prisons and schools countrywide through the Give a Book charity.
We hope that Bluestocking Oxford will build on Lady Antonia Fraser’s contributions to the field of women’s history, and that her story will inspire a new generation of scholars to venture into untrodden intellectual terrains.
Our Supporters
Rachel Johnson, Journalist and Oxford Alumna
Professor Amia Srinivasan, The University of Oxford
Professor Eleanor Stride, The University of Oxford
Dr Kate Kirkpatrick, The University of Oxford
Professor Emerita Nicole Pohl, Oxford Brookes University, and Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford
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