It is the defect of most “amateur” historians that they evade this drudgery, or abandon it halfway through.
Only a practicing historian knows the hours of boring and backbreaking labor that go into a book like this and in a well-trampled field like the life of Mary Stuart the burden of such labor is not lightened by the hope of some exciting find. I do not mean to sound sarcastic or patronizing. Lady Antonia Fraser is young, beautiful, and rich, an earl’s daughter married to a busy and successful politician, the mother of a large family yet she has surmounted all these handicaps to authorship to produce a first-rate historical biography.
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