Marie Antoinette: The Journey
Marie Antoinette: The Journey is a sympathetic 2001 biography of
The book, which was relaunched to coincide with the release of the related film, has had considerable success. It has been translated into French and Italian, been awarded the Enid McLeod Literary Prize, received critical praise including being described "definitive" by British historian,
Summary
Beginning with Marie Antoinette's mother, Empress Maria Theresa, the book chronicles the life of Marie Antoinette and how she, though the youngest of her mother's daughters, was selected to marry the future king of France.
Fraser depicts a young dauphine, and eventual queen, unfairly maligned due to decades of anti-Austrian sentiment and xenophobia who was never comfortable in her role as influencer and ambassadress to Austria in a French court in which she was treated with derision and hostility.
First editions
- London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2001. ISBN 0-297-81908-9
- New York: Doubleday, 2001. ISBN 0-385-48948-X
Paperback edition
- London: Orion Publishing Group, 2006. ISBN 978-0-7538-2140-4(13).
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