
Wolf Hall
August 5, 2022
While exploring the Folger Shakespeare Library's latest online endeavor in a blog last month, I cited the Bard's will where he bequeaths his 'second best bed' to his wife, Anne. Though that passage…
May 24, 2022
The desk on which Dame Hilary Mantel wrote her multi-award-winning Wolf Hall trilogy
August 20, 2010
The highly-respected English novelist A.S. Byatt says that women who write industrial-strength fiction are treated by critics as oddities, "like a dog standing on its hind legs."