Episode 240: Flora Fraser, Biography & a Biographer’s Work

Have you ever had one of those really interesting conversations where the person was so fascinating that you wished the conversation didn’t have to end?

Flora Fraser joins us for one of those conversations. We’ll talk about biography, and in doing so, she’ll tell us what it was like to grow up as the daughter and granddaughter of two famed, British biographers and about the genre of biography and how it developed in the United Kingdom.

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Episode Summary

Flora Fraser joins us to talk about biography, and in doing so, she’ll tell us what it was like to grow up as the daughter and granddaughter of two famed, British biographers and about the genre of biography and how it developed in the United Kingdom.

 

 

What You’ll Discover

  • Biographies as character-driven history
  • History through the eyes of women
  • Great Britain’s tradition of biography
  • The biographer’s process of research, writing, and storytelling
  • Writing the biographies of royals versus non-royals
  • Role of objectivity in a biographer’s work

 

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