Wolf Hall

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…
The desk on which Dame Hilary Mantel wrote her multi-award-winning Wolf Hall trilogy
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."