“The Tudors” shows how the English Renaissance was the work of wily leaders and enterprising foreigners. No dynasty has better captured the modern imagination.
Surely, Mantel is then an exception. Perhaps she transcends the uninspiring borders of historical fiction through her sheer devotion to conventionality. It is truly a testament to her strength and creativity that Wolf Hall is this good.
Hilary Mantel, British author of the Tudor series of books known as the Wolf Hall trilogy, passed away peacefully on Thursday, September 22, Reuters reports. The twice Booker Prize-winning author was 70.
Colne Priory in Essex has long been the burial site of the Earls of Oxford until Henry VIII’s Dissolution of the Monasteries left it in ruins, to be excavated by modern archaeologists.