Hilary Mantel

Hilary Mantel spoke about royal bodies in the first of this year’s LRB Winter Lectures at the British Museum.

In the LRB Archive:

• Royal Bodies · 21 February 2013

• Diary: Meeting the Devil · 4 November 2010

• What is going on in there?: Hypochondria · 5 November 2009

  • Tormented Hope: Nine Hypochondriac Lives by Brian Dillon

• The Crowe is White: Bloody Mary · 24 September 2009

  • Fires of Faith: Catholic England under Mary Tudor by Eamon Duffy

• He Roared: Danton · 6 August 2009

  • Danton: The Gentle Giant of Terror by David Lawday

• Diary: On Being a Social Worker · 11 June 2009

• What did her neighbours say when Gabriel had gone?: The Virgin and I · 9 April 2009

  • Mother of God: A History of the Virgin Mary by Miri Rubin

• Someone to Disturb: A Memoir · 1 January 2009

• Diary: In the Waiting Room · 14 August 2008

• Frocks and Shocks: Jane Boleyn · 24 April 2008

  • Jane Boleyn: The Infamous Lady Rochford by Julia Fox

• Story: ‘Offences against the Person’ · 20 March 2008

• That Wilting Flower: The Lure of the Unexplained · 24 January 2008

  • Chambers Dictionary of the Unexplained edited by Una McGovern

• Saartjie Baartman’s Ghost: The New Apartheid · 20 September 2007

  • When Bodies Remember: Experiences and Politics of Aids in South Africa by Didier Fassin, translated by Amy Jacobs and Gabrielle Varro
  • The Invisible Cure: Africa, the West and the Fight against Aids by Helen Epstein

• The Real Price of Everything: The Many Lives of Elizabeth Marsh · 21 June 2007

  • The Ordeal of Elizabeth Marsh: A Woman in World History by Linda Colley

• If you’d seen his green eyes: The People’s Robespierre · 20 April 2006

  • Fatal Purity: Robespierre and the French Revolution by Ruth Scurr

• What He Could Bear: A Brutal Childhood · 9 March 2006

  • A Lie about My Father by John Burnside

• Is the particle there?: Schrödinger in Clontarf · 7 July 2005

  • A Game with Sharpened Knives by Neil Belton

• I have washed my feet out of it: Growing up in Ghana · 21 October 2004

  • Hustling Is Not Stealing: Stories of an African Bar Girl by John Chernoff
  • Exchange Is Not Robbery: More Stories of an African Bar Girl by John Chernoff
  • Purple Hibiscus by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

• Some girls want out: spectacular saintliness · 4 March 2004

  • The Voices of Gemma Galgani: The Life and Afterlife of a Modern Saint by Rudolph Bell and Cristina Mazzoni
  • Saint Thérèse of Lisieux by Kathryn Harrison
  • The Disease of Virgins: Green Sickness, Chlorosis and the Problems of Puberty by Helen King
  • A Wonderful Little Girl: The True Story of Sarah Jacob, the Welsh Fasting Girl by Siân Busby

• Diary: Hilary Mantel meets her stepfather · 23 October 2003

• Is it still yesterday?: Children of the Revolution · 17 April 2003

  • The Lost King of France by Deborah Cadbury

• Memories of Catriona: her memoir concludes · 6 February 2003

• Little Miss Neverwell: her memoir continued · 23 January 2003

• Giving up the Ghost: My Life as a Boy · 2 January 2003

• The Shape of Absence: The Bondwoman’s Narrative · 8 August 2002

  • The Bondwoman’s Narrative: A Novel by Hannah Crafts, edited by Henry Louis Gates

• The dead are all around us: Helen Duncan · 10 May 2001

  • Hellish Nell: Last of Britain’s Witches by Malcolm Gaskill

• How Shall I Know You? · 19 October 2000

• ‘What a man this is, with his crowd of women around him!’: Springtime for Robespierre · 30 March 2000

  • Robespierre edited by Colin Haydon and William Doyle

• Fatal Non-Readers: Marie-Antoinette · 30 September 1999

  • The Wicked Queen: The Origins of the Myth of Marie-Antoinette by Chantal Thomas, translated by Julie Rose

• The National Razor: Aux Armes, Citoyennes · 16 July 1998

  • The Women of Paris and Their French Revolution by Dominique Godineau, translated by Katherine Sharp

• Number One Id: Idi Amin (Dada) · 19 March 1998

  • The Last King of Scotland by Giles Foden

• Terminus · 22 May 1997

• Boxes of Tissues · 6 March 1997

  • As If by Blake Morrison

• Faraway Train · 23 January 1997

  • Flickerbook by Leila Berg

• ‘Shop!’ · 4 April 1996

  • Behind the Scenes at the Museum by Kate Atkinson

• Pointing Out the Defects · 22 December 1994

  • Under My Skin by Doris Lessing

• Eunice’s Story · 20 October 1994

  • The Unredeemed Captive: A Family Story from Early America by John Demos

• Homophobic · 13 May 1993

  • Mary Renault: A Biography by David Sweetman

• Blame it on the Belgians · 25 June 1992

  • The Reckoning: The Murder of Christopher Marlowe by Charles Nicholl

• Rescued by Marat · 28 May 1992

  • Théroigne de Méricourt: A Melancholic Woman during the French Revolution by Elisabeth Roudinesco, translated by Martin Thom
  • Women and the Limits of Citizenship in the French Revolution by Olwen Hufton

• Plain girl’s revenge made flesh · 23 April 1992

  • Madonna Unauthorised by Christopher Andersen

• How long? · 27 February 1992

  • The Literary Companion to Sex: An Anthology of Prose and Poetry edited by Fiona Pitt-Kethley
  • The Love Quest: A Sexual Odyssey by Anne Cumming

• Looking back in anger · 21 November 1991

  • Almost a Gentleman. An Autobiography: Vol. II 1955-66 by John Osborne

• Ultra-Sophisticated · 7 December 1989

  • Life Lines: Politics and Health 1986-1988 by Edwina Currie
  • My Turn by Nancy Reagan and William Novak
  • Heiress: The Story of Christina Onassis by Nigel Dempster

• Surviving the Sixties · 18 May 1989

  • Shoe: The Odyssey of a Sixties Survivor by Jonathan Guinness
  • Lilly: Reminiscences of Lillian Hellman by Peter Feibleman

• Diary · 30 March 1989

• Women in Pain · 21 April 1988

  • Women and Love. The New Hite Report: A Cultural Revolution in Progress by Shere Hite

• The Way to Glory · 3 March 1988

  • Chinese Lives: An Oral History of Contemporary China by Zhang Xinxin and Sang Ye, edited by W.J.F. Jenner and Delia Davin

• No Place for Journalists · 1 October 1987

  • The Saudis: Inside the Desert Kingdom by Sandra Mackey
  • Behind the Wall: A Journey through China by Colin Thubron

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