Antonia Fraser

I am re-reading Henry James as a change from history. I began with Daisy Miller, and I've just finished Washington Square. What a brilliant, painful book. ”

I'm very interested in good and evil and the moral natures of people. ”

My advantage as a woman and a human being has been in having a mother who believed strongly in women's education. She was an early undergraduate at Oxford, and her own mother was a doctor. ”

I have no plans for a future Jemima Shore mystery, but would write one tomorrow if a good idea came to me. ”