My life is forever richer 2) Queen Nzinga. Maybe I am just not bright enough to appreciate it.īut I'm giving it three stars for a few reasons: 1) I now know about Caterina Sforza taunting soldiers who were about to kill her children by lifting her skirt to show her pregnancy and saying, 'You fools! Don't you know that I can make more?' Brilliant. My brain felt like a glazed donut when I read more than 30 pages in a sitting. I am stubborn and when I hit the halfway point, I refused to quit. I finished this book and exhaled loudly while screaming FINALLY! Finally it is over. Her most recent book is Must You Go?, celebrating her life with Harold Pinter, who died on Christmas Eve 2008. Antonia Fraser was made DBE in 2011 for her services to literature. She was awarded the Norton Medlicott Medal by the Historical Association in 2000. She has written five highly praised books which focus on women in history, The Weaker Vessel: Women's Lot in Seventeenth Century Britain (Wolfson Award for History, 1984), The Warrior Queens: Boadecia's Chariot, The Six Wives of Henry VIII, Marie Antoinette: The Journey (Franco-British Literary Prize 2001), which was made into a film by Sofia Coppola in 2006 and most recently Love and Louis XIV: The Women in the Life of the Sun King.

Antonia Fraser is the author of many widely acclaimed historical works, including the biographies Mary, Queen of Scots (a 40th anniversary edition was published in May 2009), Cromwell: Our Chief of Men, King Charles II and The Gunpowder Plot (CWA Non-Fiction Gold Dagger St Louis Literary Award).

The warrior queens by antonia fraser