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Mantel, Hilary, 1952-2022
Mantel, Hilary, 1952-2022
English literature -- Periodicals -- Excerpts.
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Mantel
pieces
:
royal
bodies
and
other
writing
from the
London
Review
of
Books
/ Hilary
Mantel
.
by
Mantel
, Hilary, 1952-2022
4th Estate, 2020.
Call #:
828.9209 M292m
Subjects
Mantel
, Hilary, 1952-2022
English literature -- Periodicals -- Excerpts.
ISBN:
9780008429973 (hc.)
Description:
335 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Notes:
All
pieces
previously published in
London
review
of
books
.
Summary:
A collection of twenty reviews, essays and
pieces
of memoir selected from three decades of the author's contributions to the
London
review
of
books
. Subjects include Robespierre and Danton, the Hite report, Saudi Arabia (where she lived for four years in the 1980s), the Bulger case, John Osborne, the Virgin Mary as well as the pop icon Madonna, and Helen Duncan, Britain's last witch. There are essays about Jane Boleyn, Charles Brandon, Christopher Marlowe and Margaret Pole, Her famous lecture, '
Royal
Bodies
', which caused a media frenzy, explores the place of
royal
women in society and our imagination. Here too are some of her LRB diaries, including her first meeting with her stepfather and a confrontation with a circus strongman. Interleaved with letters and
other
ephemera gathered from the archive.
Genre:
Essays.
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