The Real Thomas Cromwell Never Lived at Wolf Hall
Hilary Mantel, in her own words, likes to “use real people in real situations.” Her Man Booker Prize-winning novels Wolf Hall and Bring Up the Bodies evoke Tudor England so vividly that most readers accept her portrait of Thomas Cromwell as historically accurate. According to one critic, because of her books “millions think of Thomas Cromwell as a much-maligned, […]
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