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Rebecca Fraser

Biography

Rebecca Fraser

Rebecca Fraser, daughter of noted British historian Lady Antonia Fraser, is the author of THE STORY OF BRITAIN, which has been described as "an elegantly written, impressively well-informed single-volume history of how England was governed during the past 2000 years." A reviewer and broadcaster, her previous work also includes a biography of Charlotte Brontë that examined her life within the framework of contemporary attitudes to women. Rebecca Fraser was President of the Brontë Society for many years.

Rebecca Fraser

Books by Rebecca Fraser

The Mayflower: The Families, the Voyage, and the Founding of America
by Rebecca Fraser - History, Nonfiction

The voyage of the Mayflower and the founding of Plymouth Colony is one of the seminal events in world history. But the poorly equipped group of English Puritans who ventured across the Atlantic in the early autumn of 1620 had no sense they would pass into legend. They had 80 casks of butter and two dogs but no cattle for milk, meat or ploughing. They were ill-prepared for the brutal journey and the new land that few of them could comprehend. But the Mayflower story did not end with these Pilgrims’ arrival on the coast of New England or their first uncertain years as settlers. Rebecca Fraser traces two generations of one ordinary family and their extraordinary response to the challenges of life in America.