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The Haunting of Wolf Hall #25–29: Master of Phantoms / Spoils

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Jul 18, 2024
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This is a bonus post for paid subscribers to accompany the weekly discussion post of the Cromwell trilogy by Hilary Mantel. It is part of a series exploring spectral and haunting themes in the Cromwell trilogy. You can read all of them here.

Wriothesley’s ‘burning plain’ alludes to the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah in Genesis. Painting: Lot and his d…

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