Margaret Foster

Standard Name: Foster, Margaret

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Cultural formation Hilary Mantel
Her parents—Margaret Foster and Henry Thompson —were of IrishCatholic extraction, descendants of immigrants who had come to work for the textile mills. They were working class of little education, with distant, painful memories...
Family and Intimate relationships Hilary Mantel
Margaret Foster (later Thompson, later Mantel), HM 's mother, would have passed the eleven-plus for admission to grammar school, but her teacher's failure to enter her for the exam meant that she left school at...
Residence Hilary Mantel
A few weeks after the eleven-plus exam, Hilary Thompson (later HM )—with her mother , Jack , her little brothers, and the dog—moved from Derbyshire to Cheshire and a semi-detached house with a bathroom. Her...

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