The Hilary Mantel and Royal family furore

[dweomeroflight]

Has anyone else heard about Booker prize winner, Hilary Mantel's, controversial speech on Royal Bodies, presented for the London Review of Books? I saw it yesterday in my twitter feed and clicked on it out of interest. As someone coming to it as a cultural historian, as a writer and as someone who comes from a country that has little love left for

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[a_phoenixdragon]

I love his books. I love that quote. And I love how edgey his thoughts processes are. Hardly shocking to me - more refreshing! I would love to see links to those debates. Lewis was in his genre, though took a different tack on how he wrote about religion, fairytales and world-view.

True. I just took exception - never meant to imply that she had no right to use it. (Sorry if I did!) Just that I found it personally uncomfortable for me and that I cannot read anything of hers without 'hearing' that tone. And that's all me and my perceptions. It really has nothing to do with Mantel herself or the subject she was writing in.

LOL! Another truth! This discourse hasn't even really touched on the CONTENT of her speech/article, lol! Just how she chose to say it. I'm sorry, for some reason I'm finding that funny *Stifles a giggle*

I do agree with a lot of her points and find them thought-provoking. Though yeah...sledgehammer, lol!! I just wish she had...said it differently? I dunno. I just feel there was too much lost that could have been discussed rationally and it's terrible that people want to argue the question, when the question itself is valid.