Mantel, Hilary. “Royal Bodies”. London Review of Books, Vol.
35
, No. 4, 21 Feb. 2013, pp. 3-7. Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
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Cultural formation | Rose Hickman | She belonged to the London trading class, which was rising rapidly in wealth and influence. Life at this date was hazardous, however. Hers was shaped by her parents' belief in the new reformed religion, and... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Margaret Roper | The family of Thomas More
were merchants and lawyers of London's bourgeois ruling class: Thomas duly became a lawyer and out of personal passion became a scholar of the new humanist learning. He married again... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Frances Neville Baroness Abergavenny | FNBA
's father, Thomas Manners
, first Earl of Rutland, was one of the peers who tried Anne Boleyn
for treason. He went on to hold various distinguished official positions. He died on 20 September... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Rose Hickman | RH
's father, William Lok or Locke (1480-1550), had been married before and he was twice more married after the death of his second wife, Katherine (Cook)—who bore him nine children—and whose protestant faith he... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Queen Elizabeth I | Elizabeth's mother, Anne Boleyn
, a country gentleman's daughter, attracted the king during his first marriage by her beauty and personality. Her few surviving letters indicate high intelligence and language skills. She was executed on... |
Literary responses | Elizabeth Strickland | The Athenæum was quite mocking about the quality of the history, finding it deficient in the critical evaluation and referencing of sources, and claiming to have derived entertainment but not instruction from the first volume... |
Performance of text | Hilary Mantel | HM
gave a lecture at the British Museum
in a series organized by the London Review of Books, as Undressing Anne Boleyn (printed in the same journal on 21 February as Royal Bodies). Mantel, Hilary. “Royal Bodies”. London Review of Books, Vol. 35 , No. 4, 21 Feb. 2013, pp. 3-7. |
Performance of text | Claire Luckham | The Seduction of Anne Boleyn, another historical play by CL
, was first presented at Southampton's Nuffield Theatre
. Luckham, Claire. Plays. Oberon, 1999. 128 |
politics | Margaret Roper | Thomas More
's opposition to Henry VIII
's projected marriage to Anne Boleyn
was unshakable. On 17 April 1534 he was imprisoned in the Tower of London as a political offender, having refused on 12... |
Author summary | Claire Luckham | Claire Luckham's career as a playwright was launched in 1976, when the feminist theatre group Monstrous Regiment
selected Scum (a play on which she and her husband collaborated) to open their first season. Her plays... |
Publishing | Elizabeth Tollet | ET
's nephew George Tollet
published, with her name, a new, enlarged edition of her work: Poems on Several Occasions. With Anne Boleyn
to Henry VIII
. An Epistle. Londry, Michael, and Elizabeth Tollet. The Poems of Elizabeth Tollet. Oxford University, 2004. 23 |
Publishing | Hilary Mantel | On 12 May 2012HM
published in The Guardian an article about Anne Boleyn
. Mantel, Hilary. “’I have only a little neck’”. The Guardian, 12 May 2012, pp. Review 2 - 4. Review 2-4 |
Publishing | Mary Hays | She was commissioned to produce this work for the occasion of |
Residence | Susan Tweedsmuir | As a child Susan Grosvenor lived with her parents and sister at 30 Upper Grosvenor Street—but only in winter, for summers were spent with the extended family at her grandparents' country estate, Moor Park... |
Textual Features | Hilary Mantel | This novel begins as Henry VIII
is already thinking about marrying Jane Seymour
, and ends at a moment when it seems that Cromwell is triumphant over his enemies (including his former ally Anne Boleyn |
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