"The history of a writer's love affair with her vocation. . . . Elicit[s] warm fellow feeling even in readers themselves who are nothing like a dame." --The New York Times Book Review

"Reading My History, I felt I was sitting at Ms. Fraser's dinner table in London, listening to the reminiscences and anecdotes of a grande dame." --Moira Hodgson, The Wall Street Journal

"A fascinating account. . . . A book that ends, as it began, in wonderland." --The Guardian (London)

"Hugely enjoyable." --The Times (London)

"Antonia Fraser, through both advantages of birth and strength of character, is one of those rare human beings who has managed to live a long, eventful life that has been both charmed and charming. . . . My History will certainly bring readers closer to Antonia Fraser. And the closer they get, the more most of them will like this willful, winning and very talented lady." --The Washington Times

"Engaging and elegiac." --Financial Times

"A witty, perambulating memoir of youth and early adulthood. . . . Nuanced and emotionally oblique in a most English fashion, [My History] offers a textured glimpse into a bygone era." --Publishers Weekly

"Engaging. . . . This autobiographical journey is distinguished by Fraser's contagious enthusiasm for all things historical, including her own remarkable past." --Booklist
"Will amuse and delight memoir lovers interested in upper-class British life of the mid-twentieth century." --Library Journal