Mantel pieces : Royal bodies and other writing from the London review of books /

Mantel pieces : Royal bodies and other writing from the London review of books /

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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:	Mantel, Hilary, 1952- author.
Uniform title:	Works. Selections
Imprint:	London : 4th Estate, 2020.
Description:	335 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language:	English
Subject:	Mantel, Hilary, -- 1952- Mantel, Hilary, -- 1952- English literature -- Periodicals -- Excerpts. Autobiographies. Diaries. Essays. Literary criticism. Reviews. Essays. Literary criticism. Reviews. Autobiographies. Diaries.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/12416023

Hidden Bibliographic Details
Other uniform titles:	Contained in (work): London review of books.
ISBN:	9780008429973 0008429979
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.

Table of Contents:

Introduction: Hilary Mantel
Letter from Hilary Mantel to Karl Miller, 1987
American marriage, 1988
Letter from Mary-Kay Wilmers to Hilary Mantel, 1988
Bookcase shopping in Jeddah, 1989
Postcard from Hilary Mantel to Mary-Kay Wilmers, 1989
John Osborne's memoirs, 1991
Draft of a cover caption by Mary-Kay Wilmers, 1992
In bed with Madonna, 1992
'LRB' cover, 28 May 1992
On Théroigne de Méricourt, 1992
Postcard from Hilary Mantel to Mary-Kay Wilmers, 1997
On Christopher Marlowe, 1992
Fax from Hilary Mantel to Mary-Kay Wilmers, 1994
A Mohawk captive, 1994
Fax from Hilary Mantel to Mary-Kay Wilmers, 1997
The murder of James Bulger, 1997
Postcard and fax from Hilary Mantel, 1999
On Marie Antoinette, 1999
Email from Hilary Mantel to Mary-Kay Wilmers, 2001
Britain's last witch, 2001
Email from Hilary Mantel to the editors, 2003
Meeting my stepfather, 2003
Card and email from Hilary Mantel to the editors, 2003
The Hair Shirt Sisterhood, 2004
'LRB' covers, 24 March 2004 and 20 April 2006
The People's Robespierre, 2006
Email from Hilary Mantel to Mary-Kay Wilmers, 2005
On Jane Boleyn, 2008
Email from Hilary Mantel to the editors, 2006
'LRB' cover, 9 April 2009
Marian devotion, 2009
On Danton, 2009
'LRB' cover, 4 November 2010
Meeting the Devil, 2010
Email from Hilary Mantel to Mary-Kay Wilmers, 2012
Royal bodies, 2013
Emails from Hilary Mantel to Mary-Kay Wilmers, 2013
On Charles Brandon, 2016
Fact-checking correspondence, 2016
The secrets of Margaret Pole, 2017
Email from Hilary Mantel to Mary-Kay Wilmers, 2019.