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The Haunting of Wolf Hall #7: Entirely Beloved Cromwell (Part 2)

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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.

"Mad Meg" (Dutch: Dulle Griet) by Pieter Brueghel the Elder. Source.

In 2017, Hilary Mantel gave the BBC Reith Lect…

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