Devil's Spit / A Painter’s Eye

Wolf Crawl Week 14: Monday 1 April – Sunday 7 April

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Welcome to week fourteen of Wolf Crawl

This week, we are reading “Devil’s Spit, Autumn and winter 1533” and “A Painter’s Eye, 1534”. Treason, satanic saliva, battles in the bedchamber, and mushroom-picking.

You will find everything you need for this read-along on the main Cromwell trilogy page of my website, including:

• The reading schedule

• Weekly updates, like this one

• Plot summaries for each character

• Online resources about Mantel’s writing and Thomas Cromwell

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In this week’s post:

1. This week’s story

2. This week’s characters

3. This week’s theme: Defensive fortifications

4. Footnote: Squashed letters

5. Character focus: Richard Riche

6. Tangent: The world is not what is was

7. Footnote: The last wolf in England

8. Tangent: Bedchamber battles

9. Character focus: Lady Rochford

10. Footnote: Holbein’s portrait

11. Quote of the week: God’s pen is poised

12. Next week