Ebook {Epub PDF} My History: A Memoir of Growing Up by Antonia Fraser

 · In her new memoir, “My History,” she recalls, “I was like Kipling’s Mowgli in ‘The Jungle Book,’ the feral child who had been brought up by wolves and had difficulty adjusting to Author: Liesl Schillinger. In this magical memoir, Antonia Fraser recalls her idiosyncratic upbringing with inimitable humour and style. Packed with incident and anecdote, it vividly evokes her childhood in Oxford where her father, the future Lord Longford, was a don, her education at a convent school, wartime evacuation to a romantic Elizabethan manor house, and her 'deeply, gloriously, heroically eccentric' great-uncle, Lord Dunsany/5(63). Antonia Fraser's magical memoir describes growing up in the s and '40s, but its real concern is with her growing love of history. A fascination that began with reading Our Island Story and her evacuation to an Elizabethan manor house at the beginning of the Second World War soon developed into an enduring passion, becoming, in her own words, 'an essential part of the enjoyment of life'/5(63).

The acclaimed New York Times bestselling author shares vivid memories of her childhood and recalls the experiences that set her on the path to a writing life. Ever since she received Our Island Story by H. E. Marshall as a Christmas present in , Antonia Fraser's deep love of history has been a constant in her remarkable life. The book made such an impression that it inspired her to write. My History: A Memoir of Growing Up | Fraser, Antonia | download | Z-Library. Download books for free. Find books. My History: A Memoir Of Growing Up|Antonia Fraser, The Bhilsa topes, or, Buddhist monuments of central India: comprising a brief historical sketch of the rise, progress, and decline of Buddhism with of the various groups of topes around Bhilsa|Alexander Cunningham, Seeding Rate Fertilizer Effect on Yield of Maize-Vetch Intercropping: Effect Spatial Arrangement Of Vetch And Fertilizer On.

In her new memoir, “My History,” she recalls, “I was like Kipling’s Mowgli in ‘The Jungle Book,’ the feral child who had been brought up by wolves and had difficulty adjusting to. In this magical memoir, Antonia Fraser recalls her idiosyncratic upbringing with inimitable humour and style. Packed with incident and anecdote, it vividly evokes her childhood in Oxford where her father, the future Lord Longford, was a don, her education at a convent school, wartime evacuation to a romantic Elizabethan manor house, and her 'deeply, gloriously, heroically eccentric' great-uncle, Lord Dunsany. The doyenne of the historical biography turns the spotlight on her childhood and early life. 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.".