Hilary Mantel

Very sad to hear today of the death of Hilary Mantel, author of the wonderful Wolf Hall trilogy, twice winner of the Booker Prize and beautiful writer. I love the title of this collection of essays and short pieces. It includes ‘Royal Bodies’, a lecture on the commodification and exploitation of royal women and their bodies. It caused a lot of fuss when it was delivered in 2013. Mantel was accused of attacking the royals when really she was calling for the media to treat them with more respect.

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