Throughout, history blends easily with fiction as Mantel provokes the reader into blurring what is historically documented and what might have been. This immersive tale has a large cast of characters with family trees whose historical roots are deep and tangled. At the same time, he creates an entrance into a relationship with Jane that must be carefully manipulated and presented to the nation. Privy to all the intrigue, Cromwell carefully plots a chain of events that will permit the king an early exit from his marriage to Anne, who has failed to produce a male heir. At the start of the story, Cromwell is the chief minister to the king, and as part of the royal entourage takes the reader inside palace walls to witness gossip, scandal, and the upheaval of religious and political change. Main character Thomas Cromwell provides the lens through which readers see the ruin of Anne Boleyn, second wife of King Henry XIII, and the rise of Jane Seymour, who is destined to become the king’s third wife.
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Fans of the popular television series The Tudors will be familiar with this era of political turmoil, but Bring Up the Bodies does not travel that bodice-ripping, mistress-to-scaffold path. In Bring Up the Bodies, Mantel presents a dazzling journey back in time. Get caught up in the politics and drama - 16th Century styleĮnter a world of politics, power, scandal and political spin-doctoring. 679 or email Tudors according to Cromwell Contact us at 41 (toll-free in Ontario 1-88), ext. With the exception of some classroom sets, items reviewed are available on loan from the Margaret Wilson Library at the College. PIERRE LACAU (Fr.) – Director-General of the Egyptian Antiquities Service, overseer and licenser of all excavations in EgyptĪHMED (Egy.) – first foreman of the Trilipush ExpeditionĪMR (Egy.For additional reviews of French-language resources, visit Pour parler profession. LAURENCE MACY III ( US) – nephew to Margaret Finneran and Cornelius Macy, family historian, correspondent, drafted as literary side-kick by FerrellīEVERLY QUINT (Brit.) – Oxford student, friend to Marlowe and TrilipushīOYD AND EMMA HOYT (Austral.) – husband and wife, clown and poodle trainer, last owners of the Flipping Hoyt Brothers circus, SydneyĬATHERINE AND RONALD BARRY (Austral.) – brother and sister, schoolmaster and librarian, Bolshevik agitators, protectors of Paul CaldwellĬLAES TER BREUGGEN (Hol.) – Chair of Egyptology, Harvard University, employer of Trilipush PAUL CALDWELL (Austral.) – amateur Egyptologist, circus performer, librarian, Communist agitator, corporal in the Australian Imperial Force, lost in the First World WarīARNABAS DAVIES (Brit.) – brewer, millionaire, former merchant sailor, epic philanderer
JEAN-MICHEL VASSAL (Fr.) – second translator of the Admonitions of Atum-hadu WRIGHT HARRIMAN (Scot.) – first translator of the Admonitions of Atum-hadu HEINZ KOVACS (US) – investor in the Trilipush Expedition, perpetually tormented by the US Attorney General and IRSĬLEMENT WEXLER (Brit.) – Oxford don of Egyptology, known for his skepticismį. JULIUS PADRAIG O’TOOLE (US) – investor in the Trilipush Expedition, owner of JPs speakeasy, godfather to Margaret Finneran
HUGO ST. JOHN MARLOWE (Brit.) – army Captain and Oxford graduate student of Egyptology, killed in the First World War, closest friend of Trilipush MASTER OF LARGESSE – Atum-hadu’s advisor and treasurer, and Trilipush’s fond nickname for CCF MARGARET FINNERAN (US) – socialite, daughter to Chester, fiancée to Trilipush THE FIFTH EARL OF CARNARVON (Brit.) – amateur Egyptologist and financial patron of Howard CarterĪTUM – Egyptian creator-god, created the next generation of gods by masturbating onto fertile soilĪTUM-HADU – “Atum-Is-Aroused”, widely debated final (?) king (?) of Egypt’s XIIIth Dynasty, named for the moment immediately prior to creation (see Atum), author (?) of widely debated Admonitions of Atum-haduĬHESTER CRAWFORD FINNERAN (US) – “CCF”, owner of Finneran’s Finer Finery in Boston, patron of the Trilipush Expedition, soon-to-be father-in-law to Trilipush HOWARD CARTER (Brit.) – renowned Egyptologist, discoverer of the tomb of Tutankhamun HAROLD FERRELL (Austral.) – private detective, memoirist TRILIPUSH (Brit.) – Harvard-employed Egyptologist, MA and partial PhD from Oxford, author of Desire and Deceit in Ancient Egypt, heir to Trilipush Hall in Kent, during World War I served in counter-intelligence in Egypt and was wounded at Gallipoli, leading scholar of Atum-hadu
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