Cressida Connolly

Rugger, Robin Hood and Rupert of the Rhine: enthusiasms of the young Antonia Fraser

Cressida Connolly’s reckons that to be alone in a room reading Antonia Fraser’s My History is the perfect way to start the new year

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  • My History: A Memoir of Growing Up

    Antonia Fraser

    Weidenfeld, pp. 303

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