My history : a memoir of growing up /
by Fraser, Antonia.
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BookPublisher: London : Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2015Description: 304 pages, 24 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (black and white, and colour) ; 20 cm.ISBN: 9781780227948 (pbk.) :; 1780227949 (pbk.) :.Classification number: 920 FRASubject(s): Fraser, Antonia, 1932- -- Childhood and youth | Women authors, English -- 20th century -- Biography | Authors, English -- 20th century -- Biography | History | Biography | BiographySummary: Antonia Fraser's memoir of growing up has a double purpose. It is partly an attempt to recapture the experiences of her Oxford childhood and youth - in Shakespeare's phrase, to 'call back yesterday, bid time return'. But it is also intended as a chronicle of the progress of her love of history since her first discovery of it as a private pleasure when she was a child in the 1930s - her history, as she believed it to be, for the study of history (as her books subsequently attest) has always been an essential part of the enjoyment of life.
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Antonia Fraser's memoir of growing up has a double purpose. It is partly an attempt to recapture the experiences of her Oxford childhood and youth - in Shakespeare's phrase, to 'call back yesterday, bid time return'. But it is also intended as a chronicle of the progress of her love of history since her first discovery of it as a private pleasure when she was a child in the 1930s - her history, as she believed it to be, for the study of history (as her books subsequently attest) has always been an essential part of the enjoyment of life.
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