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The quarrels of popes and kings, with wars or pestilences, in every page; the men all so good for nothing, and hardly any women at all. Her books bristle with questions about female power, passion, and influence, exposing the complexities of her subjects, and resisting the need to revert to one-dimensional and flagrantly wrong critical views.

In writing about heroines for her historical biographies, Fraser has become one.

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Saturated with rigorous research and a distinctive sympathetic objectivity, readers were immediately obsessed. What she offered in her writing was something human in terms of feelings and details. Of inestimable value to lifelong intellectual curiosity, Fraser maintains, is a wonderful early education. I was very happy there. It taught her other important lessons, too.

I was a little girl, literally four or five. And I worked and worked which I never did. People mocked me for choosing Oliver Cromwell as my second history book and then I floored them by saying, but I would have liked to have met Oliver Cromwell.