Articles marked Hilary MantelHilary Mantel’s most recent novel is Wolf Hall. Originally published 24 April 2008 Frocks and Shocks
You may fear, from the title of this book, that they’ve found yet another ‘Boleyn girl’. The subject of this biography has already been fearlessly minced into fiction by the energetic Philippa Gregory. But there is no sign so far that another inert and vacuous feature film will be clogging up the multiplexes. In reworkings of the Tudor soap opera, Jane Boleyn is more often known as Jane Rochford, wife of George Boleyn, sister-in-law to Anne the queen. There are some lives we read backwards, from bloody exit to obscure entrance, and Jane’s is one of them. [ read more . . . ] Selected bibliography
Search the web for Hilary Mantel: Google · Yahoo! · AltaVista · Wikipedia In the LRB archiveDiary: On Being a Social Worker · 11 June 2009 What did her neighbours say when Gabriel had gone? · 9 April 2009
Someone to Disturb · 1 January 2009 Frocks and Shocks · 24 April 2008
That Wilting Flower · 24 January 2008
Saartjie Baartman’s Ghost · 20 September 2007
The Real Price of Everything · 21 June 2007
If you’d seen his green eyes · 20 April 2006
What He Could Bear · 9 March 2006
Is the particle there? · 7 July 2005
I have washed my feet out of it · 21 October 2004
Some girls want out · 4 March 2004
Is it still yesterday? · 17 April 2003
Giving up the Ghost · 2 January 2003 The Shape of Absence · 8 August 2002
‘What a man this is, with his crowd of women around him!’ · 30 March 2000
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