Antonia Fraser

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1. Antonia Fraser

   Author of Mary Queen of Scots, The Weaker Vessel, Cromwell, Our Chief of Men

2. Alison Weir

   Author of The Six Wives of Henry VIII, Eleanor of Aquitaine, The Life of Elizabeth I

3. Ngaio Marsh

   Author of Opening Night, Final Curtain, Light Thickens

4. Charlotte MacLeod

   Author of The Family Vault, The Plain Old Man, The Grub-and-Stakers Pinch a Poke

5. Patricia Wentworth

   Author of Grey Mask, Pilgrim's rest, Lonesome Road

6. Carolyn G. Heilbrun

   Author of The Theban Mysteries, The Question of Max, Hamlet's Mother and Other Women

7. Ruth Rendell

   Author of Harm Done, An Unkindness of Ravens, A Sleeping Life

8. Anthony Trollope

   Author of Barchester Towers, Can You Forgive Her?, Doctor Thorne

9. Robert K. Massie

   Author of Nicholas and Alexandra, Peter the Great, Dreadnought

10. Barbara W. Tuchman

    Author of The March of Folly: From Troy to Vietnam, The Zimmermann Telegram, Stilwell and the American Experience in China, 1911-45

11. P. D. James

    Author of The Murder Room, A Taste for Death, A Mind To Murder

12. Sharon Kay Penman

    Author of Here Be Dragons, The Sunne in Splendour, Falls the Shadow

13. Carolly Erickson

    Author of The Hidden Diary of Marie Antoinette, The First Elizabeth, Bloody Mary

14. C. V. Wedgwood

    Author of The Thirty Years War, Coffin for King Charles: The Trial of Charles I, The King's Peace, 1637-1641

15. Josephine Tey

    Author of The Daughter of Time, The Man in the Queue, Miss Pym Disposes

16. Amanda Foreman

    Author of Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire, A World on Fire: Britain's Crucial Role in the American Civil War

17. Simon Schama

    Author of Citizens: A Chronicle of the French Revolution, A History of Britain: The Wars of the British, A History of Britain: The Fate of Empire

18. Ann Granger

    Author of Flowers for His Funeral, A Fine Place for Death, Candle for a Corpse

19. David Starkey

    Author of Elizabeth: The Struggle for the Throne, Six Wives: The Queens of Henry VIII, Elizabeth I: The Exhibition Catalogue

20. Dorothy L. Sayers

    Author of The Nine Tailors, Unnatural Death, The Unpleasantness at the Bellona Club