Lives in previous centuries for women are largely a matter of class. It would have been fun to have been a rich, privileged woman in the 18th century, but no fun at all to be her maid.

Dame Antonia Margaret Caroline Fraser DBE (born 27 August 1932) née Pakenham is an Anglo-Irish author of history novels biographies and detective fiction best known as Lady Antonia Fraser. She is the widow of Harold Pinter (1930–2008) the 2005 Nobel Laureate in Literature and prior to her husband's death was also known as Antonia Pinter.