Mantel Pieces
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Mantel Pieces

Royal Bodies and Other Writing from the London Review of Books

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Mantel Pieces

Royal Bodies and Other Writing from the London Review of Books

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A stunning collection of essays and memoir from twice Booker Prize winner and international bestseller Hilary Mantel, author of the Wolf Hall Trilogy

In 1987, when Hilary Mantel was first published in the London Review of Books, she wrote to the editor, Karl Miller, ‘I have no critical training whatsoever, so I am forced to be more brisk and breezy than scholarly.’ This collection of twenty reviews, essays and pieces of memoir from the next three decades, tells the story of what happened next.

Her subjects range far and wide: 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, a brilliant examination of Helen Duncan, Britain’s last witch. There are essays about Jane Boleyn, Charles Brandon, Christopher Marlowe and Margaret Pole, which display the astonishing insight into the Tudor mind we are familiar with from the bestselling Wolf Hall Trilogy. 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.

Constantly illuminating, always penetrating and often very funny, interleaved with letters and other ephemera gathered from the archive, Mantel Pieces is an irresistible selection from one of our greatest living writers.

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Publisher
Fourth Estate
Year
2020
ISBN
9780008429980
Topic
Literature
Subtopic
Literary Essays
Index
Literature

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright
  4. Contents
  5. Introduction: Hilary Mantel
  6. Letter from Hilary Mantel to Karl Miller, 1987
  7. American Marriage, 1988
  8. Letter from Mary-Kay Wilmers to Hilary Mantel, 1988
  9. Bookcase Shopping in Jeddah, 1989
  10. Postcard from Hilary Mantel to Mary-Kay Wilmers, 1989
  11. John Osborne’s Memoirs, 1991
  12. Draft of a cover caption by Mary-Kay Wilmers, 1992
  13. In Bed with Madonna, 1992
  14. ‘LRB’ cover, 28 May 1992
  15. On Théroigne de Méricourt, 1992
  16. Postcard from Hilary Mantel to Mary-Kay Wilmers, 1997
  17. On Christopher Marlowe, 1992
  18. Fax from Hilary Mantel to Mary-Kay Wilmers, 1994
  19. A Mohawk Captive, 1994
  20. Fax from Hilary Mantel to Mary-Kay Wilmers, 1997
  21. The Murder of James Bulger, 1997
  22. Postcard and fax from Hilary Mantel, 1999
  23. On Marie-Antoinette, 1999
  24. Email from Hilary Mantel to Mary-Kay Wilmers, 2001
  25. Britain’s Last Witch, 2001
  26. Email from Hilary Mantel to the editors, 2003
  27. Meeting My Stepfather, 2003
  28. Card and email from Hilary Mantel to the editors, 2003
  29. The Hair Shirt Sisterhood, 2004
  30. ‘LRB’ covers, 24 March 2004 and 20 April 2006
  31. The People’s Robespierre, 2006
  32. Email from Hilary Mantel to Mary-Kay Wilmers, 2005
  33. On Jane Boleyn, 2008
  34. Email from Hilary Mantel to the editors, 2006
  35. ‘LRB’ cover, 9 April 2009
  36. Marian Devotion, 2009
  37. On Danton, 2009
  38. ‘LRB’ cover, 4 November 2010
  39. Meeting the Devil, 2010
  40. Email from Hilary Mantel to Mary-Kay Wilmers, 2012
  41. Royal Bodies, 2013
  42. Emails from Hilary Mantel to Mary-Kay Wilmers, 2013
  43. On Charles Brandon, 2016
  44. Fact-checking correspondence, 2016
  45. The Secrets of Margaret Pole, 2017
  46. Email from Hilary Mantel to Mary-Kay Wilmers, 2019
  47. Footnotes
  48. About the LRB
  49. About 4th Estate
  50. About the Author
  51. Also by Hilary Mantel
  52. About the Publisher