She dedicated this book to her mother
and her daughter
.
Dedications
Antonia Fraser
She had floated the idea of writing a study of women in the seventeenth century in September 1979, and publishers George Weidenfeld
and Bob Gottlieb
both seem[ed] keen.
Fraser, Antonia. Must You Go?. Random House of Canada, 2010.
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She dedicated it to her...
Family and Intimate relationships
Judith Kazantzis
Her mother, known as Elizabeth Longford
(from her husband's peerage) on the title-pages of her books, was a historical writer and biographer who was called one of the most brilliant women of her generation and...
Family and Intimate relationships
Antonia Fraser
Her mother, born Elizabeth Harman, has been described as one of the most brilliant women of her generation and as the radical force in her marriage.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
under Elizabeth Pakenham, Francis Aungier Pakenham
She ran for...
Family and Intimate relationships
Antonia Fraser
All three generations of women are seen combining in the Elizabeth Longford
Prize for Historical Biography, given in affectionate memory of the grandmother, and awarded in 2004 by judges Antonia and Flora Fraser (mother and...
Family and Intimate relationships
Queen Victoria
John Brown
, a Highlander, had first entered the service of the royal family in 1851; Victoria's biographer Elizabeth Longford
says she first mentioned him in her journal on 11 September 1849. After Prince Albert
Performance of text
Harold Pinter
When Fraser and her brother were registering their mother
's death, the brother read Pinter's poem Death aloud to the registrar.
Fraser, Antonia. Must You Go?. Random House of Canada, 2010.
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Textual Production
Susan Hill
SH
edited People: Essays & Poems, issued to benefit Oxfam
. Contributors (including Iris Murdoch
, Margaret Drabble
, Anne Ridler
, and Elizabeth Longford
) were invited to write about someone influential in their life.
The title-poem deals with her relationship with her mother
. The whole, she says, breathes imprisonment in mother/family stereotypes, and the violent clumsy effort to break free.
Kazantzis, Judith. “The Errant Unicorn”. On Gender and Writing, edited by Michelene Wandor, Pandora Press, 1983, pp. 24-30.
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Timeline
1965: Giles Gordon did a series of interviews for...
Women writers item
1965
Giles Gordon
did a series of interviews for The Scotsman with female authors: a species of writer that at the time wasn't particularly recognised, although it certainly had been in the previous century.
Gordon, Giles. “Reading Ann Quin’s Berg”. Context: A Forum for Literary Arts and Culture, 2001.
Texts
Longford, Elizabeth. Eminent Victorian Women. Alfred A. Knopf, 1981.
Longford, Elizabeth. “Lady Gregory and Wilfrid Scawen Blunt”. Lady Gregory, Fifty Years After, edited by Ann Saddlemyer and Colin Smythe, Colin Smythe, 1987, pp. 85-97.
Longford, Elizabeth. Queen Victoria: Born to Succeed. Harper and Row, 1964.