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My history a memoir of growing up

"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 d...

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Main Author: Fraser, Antonia, 1932- (Author)
Format: Books Print Book
Language: English
Published: New York : Nan A. Talese/Doubleday, [2015]
Edition: First United States edition.
Subjects:
Fraser, Antonia, > 1932- > Childhood and youth.
Fraser, Antonia, > 1932- > Family.
Fraser, Antonia, > 1932- > Homes and haunts.
Historians > Great Britain > Biography.
Women historians > Great Britain > Biography.
Authors, English > 20th century > Biography.
Oxford (England) > Biography.
Autobiographies.
Table of Contents:
  • Prologue: Things I remember
  • The sound of bells
  • My island story
  • Before-the-war
  • Hidey holes
  • She dragon
  • On our bikes
  • Girlhood encountered
  • Are we really Irish?
  • Nice Catholic friends
  • Gap year or two
  • Bringing myself out
  • Oxford Miss
  • Jeune fille in publishing
  • I'm going to marry you!
  • Epilogue: Reader, I wrote it.

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