Et cetera Faith & treason & charm
ET CETERA
FAITH & TREASON & CHARM Historian Antonia Fraser is the biographer of Mary Queen of Scots and the six ill-fated wives of Henry VIII. Her new book, Faith and Treason: The Story of the...
...Last month Fraser spoke to an adoring crowd at the Barnes and Noble superstore near Lincoln Center, whom she charmed with her eloquence, wit, and melodious English accent...
...Predictably, a period of even more intense persecution followed the failed plot...
...Guy Fawkes, burned in effigy throughout England each November 5, was apprehended in the midst of barrels of gunpowder in the cellars of Parliament on November 5, 1605...
...She was especially interested in telling the story of how Catholic women shrewdly defied the authorities...
...After being tortured, Fawkes confessed to planning to blow up King James I as the monarch was opening the Parliament...
...arrived in bookstores just in time for Halloween and the bonfires of Guy Fawkes Day (November 5...
...Fraser, a Catholic, said she was not writing an apology for terrorism, but trying to tell the story of how a community suffers as a consequence of the terrorist acts of a few of its members...
...Her new book, Faith and Treason: The Story of the Gunpowder Plot (Nan A. Ta-lese/Doubleday, $27.95,347 pp...
...The torture and execution of the conspirators were particularly grisly, Fraser warned her readers...
...In short, the government used the plot as an excuse to suppress Catholic opposition.ion...
...Fawkes and his fellow Catholic conspirators hoped both to take revenge for the persecution of Catholics and to seize power...
...Researching and writing the book convinced her that there had indeed been a conspiracy, but that it was not as widespread as the government contended...
...ET CETERA FAITH & TREASON & CHARM Historian Antonia Fraser is the biographer of Mary Queen of Scots and the six ill-fated wives of Henry VIII...
Vol. 123 • November 1996 • No. 19
