An update on the latest addition to the Continuum Histories series from its series editor. Agnes Strickland's Lives of the Queens of England (selected and introduced by Antonia Fraser) is out next year and already available to preview using the widget on the left.
Continuum Histories aim to show that often the best stories are true stories. Since the launch of the series in 2009 we believe we’ve proved our point with dramatic episodes from narrative histories by Macaulay, Carlyle, Froude, and Prescott, introduced by some of today’s most distinguished historians - J.H. Elliott, Ruth Scurr, Eamon Duffy and John Burrow.
Now we are delighted to welcome one of the greatest narrative historians of our time to the list. Antonia Fraser leapt to literary fame in 1969 with the publication of Mary, Queen of Scots. For Continuum Histories, Fraser introduces selections from Agnes Strickland’s Lives of the Queens of England, a pioneering achievement in the writing of historical biography. Strickland – and her sister Elizabeth who was her co-author but remained anonymous – was one of the most popular writers of history in the Victorian period. Fraser is among the most popular of our own time. A perfect match.
Mark Bostridge, 2010
Series Editor - Continuum Histories
