![]() ![]() ![]() But in the year since Pinter's death at the age of 78 she will have made some cool judgments. "I'm still living my life," she would explain. Lady Antonia has said in the past that she did not look at her own diaries too often, in case they drew her in. Her tactic as a non-fiction author has always been to detail the indiscretions of her subjects as a way to unlock their nature. After her groundbreaking biography of Mary, Queen of Scots, in 1969, came a study of Oliver Cromwell that the academic AL Rowse acclaimed as a "fine achievement of scholarship and writing" for the way it brought such a totemic figure to life. It is a term that hints at the snarling demon the playwright had, rather gloriously, become for much of the conservative establishment, due to his irascible campaigning against cant, against war and on behalf of liberal causes.įraser's "humanising" technique will be familiar to readers of her historical works. Her approach to their life together in the book's pages is billed as doing much to "humanise" Pinter in the public perception. Fraser's decision to bring out an edited version of a section of the diaries follows the death last Christmas Eve of her husband, Harold Pinter, lauded by many as Britain's greatest playwright of modern times. ![]()
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