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Hilary Mantel: “We Still Work to a Man’s Timetable and a Man’s Agenda”
When Hilary Mantel was in law school in England, she started suffering terrible internal pains. No one took a young woman’s agony particularly seriously, especially if it was situated uterus-adjacent. She went to visit a psychiatrist, who diagnosed the source of her anguish: It was stress, he said, caused by overambition. He wondered if law school was too taxing. Mightn’t a dress shop be a better outlet for her talents?
What none of the doctors knew, but Mantel suspected because she was consulting surgical textbooks, was that she was suffering from a severe and undiagnosed case of endometriosis. The drugs prescribed for her psychological and physical misery led her to a mental-health clinic. There, she began to write a short story about a changeling— that is, about a woman in rural Wales whose baby is snatched and switched for another. When she outli
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Hilary Mantel - Return To Wolf Hall
Hilary Mantel delves into her past in a candid new rulle for BBC Two, describing her levande imagination, active from an early age, and a tale of growing up with a dark family secret.
Shot over six months in the run up to publication of The spegel And The Light, the final book in Hilary Mantel’s Booker-winning Tudor trilogy, the rulle bring exclusive and extensive access to one of the world's greatest living writers.
Who could have imagined that Mantel’s working class anti-hero Thomas Cromwell would come to be so loved across the globe? Five hundred years after his death, the story of Cromwell’s extraordinary rise and sudden fall has been brought back into the light, drawing a vast readership, two Booker wins, a Bafta-winning television adaptation, a West End show and the interpretative gifts of some of the UK's greatest actors.
Intertwining the themes of the Wolf ingång trilogy - power, faith, kingship and Englishnes
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Wolf Hall (TV series)
2015 British television drama series
Wolf Hall is a British television series adaptation of two of Hilary Mantel's novels, Wolf Hall[1] and Bring Up the Bodies,[2] a fictionalised biography documenting the life of Thomas Cromwell.
The six-part first series was first broadcast on BBC Two in January 2015 and documented the rapid rise to power of Thomas Cromwell in the court of Henry VIII through to the death of Sir Thomas More, followed by Cromwell's success in freeing the king of his marriage to Anne Boleyn. It was first broadcast abroad in April 2015 in the United States on PBS and in Australia on BBC First. The first series was a critical success and received eight nominations at the 67th Primetime Emmy Awards and three nominations at the 73rd Golden Globe Awards, winning for Best Miniseries or Television Film.
The second series, adapted from The Mirror & the Light, the final novel in the trilogy, featured Mark Rylance