Fraser examines the careers of those exceptional women who led armies and empires and aroused the awe, terror, and veneration of their people, including Boadicea, Cleopatra, Zenobia, Tamara, Elizabeth I, Jinga Mbandi, Catherine the Great, Indira Gandhi, Golda Meir, and Margaret Thatcher.
"The Warrior Queens is lore-packed...and fascinating to read...Fraser has assembled a remarkable group of women for our contemplation."--Margaret Atwood, Los Angeles Times Book Review
"Fascinating...it is a pleasure to encounter the kind of quick and lively mind that informs every page...the bright and steady pilot light of Antonia Fraser's intelligence."--The New York Times Book Review
Contents
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Part One 1. A Singular Exception 2. Antique Glories 3. The Queen of War 4. Iceni: This Powerful Tribe 5. Ruin by a Woman 6. The Red Layer 7. Eighty Thousand Dead 8. O Zenobia!
Part Two 9. Matilda, Daughter of Peter 10. England's Domina 11. Lion of the Caucasus 12. Isabella with her Prayers 13. Elizabetha Triumphans 14. Jinga at the Gates 15. Queen versus Monster 16. The Valiant Rani 17. Iron Ladies 18. Unbecoming in a Woman?
Antonia Fraser is the author of many internationally bestselling historical works, including Love and Louis XIV; Marie Antoinette, which was made into a film by Sofia Coppola; The Wives of Henry VIII; and Mary Queen of Scots. She is also the author of the memoirs Must You Go?, about her relationship with and marriage to the playwright Harold Pinter, and My History. She has received the Wolfson Prize for History, the Medlicott Medal awarded by Britain’s Historical Association, and the Franco-British Society’s Enid McLeod Literary Prize. She was made a Dame of the British Empire in 2011 and a Companion of Honour in 2018 for services to literature.
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Fraser examines the careers of those exceptional women who led armies and empires and aroused the awe, terror, and veneration of their people, including Boadicea, Cleopatra, Zenobia, Tamara, Elizabeth I, Jinga Mbandi, Catherine the Great, Indira Gandhi, Golda Meir, and Margaret Thatcher.
"The Warrior Queens is lore-packed...and fascinating to read...Fraser has assembled a remarkable group of women for our contemplation."--Margaret Atwood, Los Angeles Times Book Review
"Fascinating...it is a pleasure to encounter the kind of quick and lively mind that informs every page...the bright and steady pilot light of Antonia Fraser's intelligence."--The New York Times Book Review
Contents
List of Illustrations
Part One 1. A Singular Exception 2. Antique Glories 3. The Queen of War 4. Iceni: This Powerful Tribe 5. Ruin by a Woman 6. The Red Layer 7. Eighty Thousand Dead 8. O Zenobia!
Part Two 9. Matilda, Daughter of Peter 10. England's Domina 11. Lion of the Caucasus 12. Isabella with her Prayers 13. Elizabetha Triumphans 14. Jinga at the Gates 15. Queen versus Monster 16. The Valiant Rani 17. Iron Ladies 18. Unbecoming in a Woman?
Antonia Fraser is the author of many internationally bestselling historical works, including Love and Louis XIV; Marie Antoinette, which was made into a film by Sofia Coppola; The Wives of Henry VIII; and Mary Queen of Scots. She is also the author of the memoirs Must You Go?, about her relationship with and marriage to the playwright Harold Pinter, and My History. She has received the Wolfson Prize for History, the Medlicott Medal awarded by Britain’s Historical Association, and the Franco-British Society’s Enid McLeod Literary Prize. She was made a Dame of the British Empire in 2011 and a Companion of Honour in 2018 for services to literature.
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