Hilary MANTEL passes

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ArnoldC

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British author of Wolf Hall trilogy passes today, age 70. Have not read her novels but did watch the PBS 'Masterpiece Theatre' TV presentations. Two seasons of it at least. Would have liked to have seen the third and how CROMWELL finished out.

Anyway, sad to see talent pass. She was recognized and honored as a Dame (DBE) so her works were much appreciated, and she leaves behind a lasting legacy. Arnold

H. Mantel DBE
 

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She had a stroke on Thursday.. and died peacefully according to her sources. She suffered all of her adult life from Endometriosis which caused her excruciating pain... R.I.P
 
How Hilary Mantel Soared

When Elaine Showalter met the author in 2000, she was on the verge of an intellectual breakthrough.

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"When she died last week, Hilary Mantel was internationally mourned as one of the great British novelists, a genius, a beloved mentor and cherished friend. But her acclaim came late. Mantel was 57 when Wolf Hall, the first volume of her trilogy about Oliver Cromwell, was published to ecstatic reviews and impressive sales, winning her her first Booker prize and propelling her to the top of the literary pyramid." (READ MORE)
 
The London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE)’s Post

"We were sad to learn of the death of Man Booker Prize winning novelist Dame Hilary Mantel, who was both an alumna and Honorary Graduate of LSE. Hilary studied Law at the School as an undergraduate between 1970 and 1971, and was awarded an Honorary Doctorate in 2014. We were proud to welcome her back to LSE again in 2009 when she delivered a public lecture on Rules of Evidence, during which she described her time as a student at LSE. We send our deepest condolences to her family."

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Dame Hilary Mantel obituary

"She met her husband, Gerald McEwen, when they were 16, marrying in 1973, the year that she graduated from Sheffield University with a law degree. Instead of becoming a barrister as she had planned, she got a job in a department store and started reading about the French Revolution. She said she never thought of becoming a novelist until she “actually picked up a pen to become one” and even then it was only because she felt she had missed her chance to become a historian. She started her first novel, A Place of Greater Safety in, 1974, when she was 22. It would be two decades before it was published. In 1977 she and Gerald were sent to Botswana for his work as a geologist. She started teaching, but in her head she was always in 1790s France, writing whenever she could."
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