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Nombre legal: Fraser, Rebecca Rose
Fecha de nacimiento: 1957-05
Género: female
Nacionalidad: UK
Ocupaciones: biographer
historian
broadcaster
Relaciones: Fraser, Antonia (mother)
Pinter, Harold (stepfather)
Pakenham, Frank (grandfather)
Longford, Elizabeth (grandmother)
Fraser-Cavassoni, Natasha (sister)
Fraser, Flora (sister) (mostrar todos 9)
Pakenham, Thomas (uncle)
Billington, Rachel (aunt)
Kazantzis, Judith (aunt)
Biografía breve: Rebecca Fraser is a member of a distinguished Anglo-Irish literary family. Her parents are Lady Antonia Fraser, the biographer and historian, and the late Sir Hugh Fraser, conservative Member of Parliament. She has worked as a researcher, publisher's editor, and journalist, and has written for many British publications including Tatler, Vogue, The Times and the Spectator. She has illustrated two books for children, King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table and Robin Hood. Her first published work was a biography of Charlotte Brontë and her family (1988). Her book A People’s History of Britain (2003) was chosen by the Tubridy Show on Irish radio to be one of its Books of the Decade.

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The Mayflower : the families, the voyage, and the… por Rebecca Fraser

This history of the Plymouth Colony follows the Pilgrim settlers through the course of the 17th century, from England to their years in Leiden, then across the Atlantic on the Mayflower to the founding of Plymouth. Fraser examines the relationships between the Plymouth colonists and their native American neighbors, the relationships between the Plymouth and Massachusetts colonies, and the leadership of the Plymouth colony with particular reference to Edward Winslow and his family. The bibliography reflects ample use of primary sources on both sides of the Atlantic. This book will satisfy many readers looking for a popular history of this era. Academic readers may be frustrated by the somewhat skimpy scholarly apparatus that is unfortunately typical of histories aimed at a broad reading public. The notes for each chapter identify significant source material for the chapter contents, but the notes generally lack specificity regarding which source(s) provide the basis for which facts or assertions in the text.

This review is based on an electronic advanced reading copy provided by the publisher through NetGalley.… (más)

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cbl_tn | Dec 29, 2017 |

The Story of Britain: From the Romans to the… por Rebecca Fraser

I thoroughly enjoyed this book, reading it mostly before bed at night over the course of about a year and a half. It was a nice end to my day, being both educational and amusing. The author's narrative was usually gripping, but I was surprised that it was more of a political history than anything else. The good part was that social history was interwoven so I never felt too removed from everything going on for people besides the big names. Most interesting was the presentation of the American Revolution, as I've never read about it from a British point of view before. This has definitely made me hungry for more British history, and not only the medieval and Elizabethan that I have been previously fond of.… (más)

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Kristin_Curdie_Cook | 2 reseñas más. | Apr 29, 2016 |

The Brontës: Charlotte Bronte & Her Family por Rebecca Fraser

An excellent book but not comparable to Juliet Barker's biography, which even in its first edition is more recent and furthermore has recently been released in a second edition (which is also available on Kindle).

My one quarrel with Fraser's biography is that Fraser does occasionally use rhetorical questions and innuendo to hint at conclusions which are more guess than supported facts, such as Fraser's suggestion that Charlotte, in a letter to Ellen Nussey, made a tentative suggestion for a Boston marriage.

Still, Fraser's biography is a very worthwhile biography, shorter than Barker's for those intimidated by Barker's length; and prior to Barker's first-edition publication, Fraser's was the best Bronte biography available (along, of course, with Gaskell's highly romanticized 1857 biography).… (más)

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CurrerBell | otra reseña | Sep 23, 2012 |

The Story of Britain: From the Romans to the… por Rebecca Fraser

Very very long and a tad too brief in places, but it is admirably serving the purpose that I checked it out for: Providing a summary overview. An example of its brevity, the American Revolution covers literally about three or four total pages, spread around here and there as required. The book is organized very chronologically. Actual military action is so briefly summed up in two paragraphs as to be funny, in an odd way.

Howe abandoned Boston for New York, was chased by Washington to Philadelphia, big victory for the Colonists at Saratoga, British become weaker and more ineffective until the surrender at Yorktown. Meanwhile, in the colonies of India....

The battle of Quebec under General Wolfe from 1775 received more text, but then the book was written by an English mother for an English audience. It is also very clear on the lineages and lives of the monarchs. I'm liking it quite a bit as far as a broad view tapestry to place my segmented knowledge of Britain's long history upon. My problem as an amateur historian is that I am far more familiar with the Anglo-Saxon Britain than, say, Queen Victoria's United Kingdom, Disraeli and Gladstone, and whatnot. It was also nice clearing up the whole Bonnie Prince Charlie thing and the Stuart kings in exile situation. Nobody likes a tyrannical egotistic king who demands absolute loyalty in all things.

It is a fine book if you are interested in the subject but if you are assigned to read it I can easily see how it would be an interminable bore. Consider that a fair warning.… (más)

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