76-527: Harley Street is a street in Marylebone , Central London , named after Edward Harley , 2nd Earl of Oxford and Earl Mortimer. Since the 19th century it has housed a large number of private specialists in medicine and surgery . Since the 19th century, the number of doctors, hospitals, and medical organisations in and around Harley Street has greatly increased. Records show that there were around 20 doctors in 1860, 80 by 1900, and almost 200 by 1914. When
152-602: A Caesarean section. When Lady Sybil dies of eclampsia, Lady Grantham blames her husband for valuing Sir Philip Tapsell's reputation over Dr. Clarkson warnings stating, "And you believed him, when Dr. Clarkson knew Sybil's history and he did not. You believed Tapsell, because he's knighted and fashionable and has a practice in Harley Street. You let all that nonsense weight against saving our daughter's life!" In Hilary Mantel 's short story Harley Street (2014), from her bundle The Assassination of Margaret Thatcher , features
228-483: A Roman Catholic in the mill village of Hadfield , where she attended St Charles Roman Catholic Primary School. Her parents, Margaret (née Foster) and Henry Thompson (a clerk), were both Catholics of Irish descent, born in England. When Mantel was seven, her mother's lover, Jack Mantel, moved in with the family. He shared a bedroom with her mother, while her father moved to another room. Four years later, when she
304-480: A debilitating and painful illness. She was initially diagnosed with a psychiatric illness , hospitalised, and treated with antipsychotic drugs , which reportedly produced psychotic symptoms. As a consequence, Mantel refrained from seeking help from doctors for some years. Finally, in Botswana and desperate, she consulted a medical textbook and realised she was probably suffering from a severe form of endometriosis ,
380-480: A diagnosis confirmed by doctors in London. The condition, and what was considered at the time to be a necessary treatment – a surgical menopause at the age of 27 – left her unable to have children and continued to disrupt her life. She later said "you've thought your way through questions of fertility and menopause and what it means to be without children because it all happened catastrophically". This led Mantel to see
456-513: A fixed rental under Elizabeth I. Forest's manor of Marylebone then passed by marriage to the Austen family. The deer park, Marylebone Park Fields, was let out in small holdings for hay and dairy produce. The Ancient Parish's church, St Marylebone Parish Church , has been rebuilt several times at various locations within the parish. The earliest known church dedicated to St John the Evangelist
532-535: A hostage, turns out to be surprisingly sympathetic to the assassin's cause. She was also working on a short non-fiction book, titled The Woman Who Died of Robespierre , about the Polish playwright Stanisława Przybyszewska . Mantel also wrote reviews and essays, mainly for The Guardian , the London Review of Books and The New York Review of Books . The Culture Show programme on BBC Two broadcast
608-611: A house on Harley Street for nine years, before she moved with her parents to the fictional northern town of Milton. In Virginia Woolf 's Mrs. Dalloway (1925), medical professional Sir William Bradshaw lives on Harley Street. P.G. Wodehouse's Sir Roderick Glossop, the “nerve specialist", was said to maintain a practice on Harley Street. Dr. Janet of Harley Street is a novel about a woman doctor published in 1894 by Dr. Arabella Kenealy . In Agatha Christie ’s The Secret of Chimneys (1925), Lord Caterham ruefully mentions that his doctor advised him to “avoid all worry. So easy for
684-583: A man sitting in his consulting room in Harley Street to say that.” Earlier in the book, a surgeon in Harley Street is mentioned among names listed in a phone book. Agatha Christie's Death in the Clouds (1935), ‘’ The Hollow ’’ (1946), and And Then There Were None (1939) include characters who are Harley Street physicians. In Agatha Christie's Crooked House (1949), Edith de Haviland visits Harley Street. In Agatha Christie's The Big Four (1927), Hastings mentions Harley Street. In Henry James' " The Turn of
760-562: A profile of Mantel on 17 September 2011. In December 2016, Mantel spoke with The Kenyon Review editor David H. Lynn on the KR Podcast about the way historical novels are published, what it is like to live in the world of one character for more than ten years, writing for the stage, and the final book in her Thomas Cromwell trilogy, The Mirror & the Light . She delivered five 2017 Reith Lectures on BBC Radio Four , talking about
836-483: A terrible severity with myself. So that nothing was ever good enough. It's like installing a policeman, and one moreover who keeps changing the law. In a 2013 interview with The Daily Telegraph , Mantel stated: "I think that nowadays the Catholic Church is not an institution for respectable people. [...] When I was a child I wondered why priests and nuns were not nicer people. I thought that they were amongst
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#1732772264640912-421: A troupe of "fiends", who are invisible but always on the verge of becoming flesh. The long novel Wolf Hall , about Henry VIII 's minister Thomas Cromwell , was published in 2009 to critical acclaim. The book won that year's Booker Prize and, upon winning the award, Mantel said, "I can tell you at this moment I am happily flying through the air". Judges voted three to two in favour of Wolf Hall for
988-686: A way." ... which is "not the kind of thing you expect to hear from a Harley Street consultant, is it." In Eoin Colfer 's novel Artemis Fowl and the Eternity Code , the title character rents a cryogenic pod from a facility off Harley Street. In Downton Abbey (2011), a fictional obstetrician with a practice on Harley Street Sir Philip Tapsell is hired by Lord Grantham to deliver the baby of his daughter Lady Sybil. When another physician Dr. Clarkson notices signs of preeclampsia, Sir Tapsell and Lord Grantham ignore his warnings and suggestion to perform
1064-640: Is Latin for "let it be according to thy word", a phrase used in the Gospel of Luke . The Metropolitan Borough of St Marylebone was a metropolitan borough of the County of London between 1899 and 1965, after which, with the Metropolitan Borough of Paddington and the Metropolitan Borough of Westminster it was merged into the City of Westminster . The Metropolitan Borough inherited the boundaries of
1140-432: Is also served by numerous tube stations: Baker Street , Bond Street , Edgware Road (Bakerloo line) , Edgware Road (Circle, District and Hammersmith & City lines) , Great Portland Street , Marble Arch , Marylebone , Oxford Circus , and Regent's Park . Marylebone was an Ancient Parish formed to serve the manors (landholdings) of Lileston (in the west, which gives its name to modern Lisson Grove ) and Tyburn in
1216-595: Is an area in London , England and is located in the City of Westminster . It is in Central London and part of the West End . Oxford Street forms its southern boundary. An ancient parish and latterly a metropolitan borough , it merged with the boroughs of Westminster and Paddington to form the new City of Westminster in 1965. Marylebone station lies two miles north-west of Charing Cross . The area
1292-529: Is irrational, but that doesn't mean that when we look at it we should behave like spectators at Bedlam . Cheerful curiosity can easily become cruelty". These remarks stimulated substantial public debate. The Leader of the Opposition Ed Miliband and Prime Minister David Cameron both criticised Mantel's remarks, while Jemima Khan defended Mantel. Zing Tsjeng praised the LRB essay, finding
1368-659: Is named after a Portman family estate in Buckinghamshire, itself named after a local family there made-good in Tudor days. Tucked away, with a few terraced houses, Bulstrode Street has been the home of minor health care professionals for hundreds of years. The RADA student and aspiring actress Vivien Leigh , aged twenty in 1933, gave birth at the Rahere Nursing Home, then at number 8, to her first child. The north end of Welbeck Street joins New Cavendish Street,
1444-511: Is one of the finest surviving Adam houses in London, and now lets rooms. Wimpole Street runs from Henrietta Place north to Devonshire Street, becoming Upper Wimpole en route – the latter where Arthur Conan Doyle opened his ophthalmic practice at number 2 in 1891; Conan Doyle's fictional detective Sherlock Holmes also had his residence in Marylebone at 221b Baker Street . Nearby at a six-floor Grade II 18th-century house at 57 Wimpole Street
1520-581: Is set in the 1780s, and is based on the true story of Charles Byrne (or O'Brien). He came to London to earn money by displaying himself as a freak. His bones hang today in the Museum of the Royal College of Surgeons . The novel treats O'Brien and his antagonist, the Scots surgeon John Hunter , less as characters in history than as mythic protagonists in a dark and violent fairytale, necessary casualties of
1596-560: Is where Paul McCartney resided from 1964 to 1966, staying on the top floor of girlfriend Jane Asher 's family home in a room overlooking Browning Mews in the back, and with John Lennon writing " I Want to Hold Your Hand " on a piano in the basement. A further Beatles connection is that they, and many other musicians have recorded at the Abbey Road Studios . At her father's house at number 50 Wimpole Street lived for some time between 1840 and 1845, Elizabeth Barrett, then known as
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#17327722646401672-610: The Age of Enlightenment . She adapted the book for BBC Radio 4 , in a play starring Alex Norton (as Hunter) and Frances Tomelty . In 2003, Mantel published her memoir, Giving Up the Ghost , which won the MIND "Book of the Year" award. That same year she brought out a collection of short stories, Learning To Talk . All the stories deal with childhood and, taken together, the books show how
1748-543: The Booker Prize more than once. Mantel was the fourth author to receive the award twice, following J. M. Coetzee , Peter Carey and J. G. Farrell . This award also made Mantel the first author to win the award for a sequel. The books were adapted into plays by the Royal Shakespeare Company and were produced as a mini-series by BBC . In 2020 Mantel published the third novel of
1824-532: The British Museum , Mantel commented on Catherine Middleton , then the Duchess of Cambridge , saying that Middleton was forced to present herself publicly as a personality-free "shop window mannequin" whose sole purpose is to deliver an heir to the throne. Mantel expanded on these views in an essay, "Royal Bodies", for the London Review of Books (LRB) : "It may be that the whole phenomenon of monarchy
1900-654: The Dukes of Portland landholdings and Georgian-era developments there. In 1879 the fifth Duke died without issue and the estate passed through the female line to his sister, Lucy Joan Bentinck, widow of the 6th Baron Howard de Walden . Most of the Manor of Lileston was acquired by Sir William Portman in 1554, and much of this was developed by his descendants as the Portman Estate in the late 1700s. Both estates have aristocratic antecedents and are still run by members of
1976-634: The England and Wales Cricket Board , with the England national team as one of a number of home venues. The ground is sometimes called the Home of Cricket . The Borough of St Marylebone was granted a coat of arms by the College of Arms in 1901. The crest includes the Virgin Mary wearing a silver robe with a light blue mantle, holding the infant Jesus, dressed in gold. The wavy light blue bars represent
2052-542: The Hawthornden Prize , takes place over two university terms in 1970. It follows the progress of three girls – two friends and one enemy – as they leave home and attend university in London. Margaret Thatcher makes a cameo appearance in this novel, which explores women's appetites and ambitions, and suggests how they are often thwarted. Though Mantel used material from her own life, it is not an autobiographical novel. Her next book, The Giant, O'Brien (1998),
2128-585: The National Health Service was established in 1948, there were around 1,500. Today, there are more than 3,000 people employed in the Harley Street area, in clinics, medical and paramedical practices, and hospitals. The nearest London Underground stations are Regent's Park , Great Portland Street and Oxford Circus . Harley Street is part of the Howard de Walden Estate . Many famous people have lived or practised in Harley Street, including
2204-593: The Reign of Terror of 1794. A Change of Climate (1994), set in rural Norfolk , explores the lives of Ralph and Anna Eldred, as they raise their four children and devote their lives to charity. It includes chapters about their early married life as missionaries in South Africa, when they were imprisoned and deported to Bechuanaland , and the tragedy that occurred there. An Experiment in Love (1996), which won
2280-568: The River Tyburn while the gold roses and lilies are taken from the arms of Barking Abbey , which held the Manor of Tyburn and first established the parish church. The version used by the Abbey was placed against a red border, and some versions of Marylebone's arms have made extensive use of red. The roses and lilies ultimately derive from the legend that when Mary's tomb was opened it contained those flowers. The motto "Fiat secundum Verbum Tuum"
2356-567: The Tyburn , where in 1400 a parish church dedicated to St Mary was built. Since the 12th century, the area had been synonymous with the Tyburn gallows , where public executions regularly took place at the crossroads of the Tyburn and old Roman road. Eager to distance themselves from the notorious gallows, the villagers took inspiration from their new church and began calling the hamlet St Mary-burne ("the stream of St Mary", burne coming from
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2432-591: The University of Sheffield and graduated as a Bachelor of Jurisprudence in 1973. After university, Mantel worked in the social work department of a geriatric hospital and then as a sales assistant at Kendals department store in Manchester. In 1973, she married Gerald McEwen, a geologist . In 1974, she began writing a novel about the French Revolution , but was unable to find a publisher (it
2508-551: The "clarity of prose and analysis is just incredible". In September 2014, in an interview published in The Guardian , Mantel said she had fantasised about the murder of the British prime minister Margaret Thatcher in 1983, and fictionalised the event in a short story called " The Assassination of Margaret Thatcher: 6 August 1983 ". Allies of Thatcher called for a police investigation, to which Mantel responded: "Bringing in
2584-756: The 1970s been viewed as a part of Fitzrovia . Local places of interest include Marylebone Village, most of Regent's Park; Marylebone Station ; and Lord's Cricket Ground , the home of the Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC) and the original site of the MCC at Dorset Square. Areas and features of Marylebone include: The area is served by routes 2 , 13 , 18 , 27 , 30 , 74 , 113 , 139 , 189 , 205 , 274 , 453 and night routes N18 and N74 . Hilary Mantel Dame Hilary Mary Mantel DBE FRSL ( / m æ n ˈ t ɛ l / man- TEL ; born Thompson ; 6 July 1952 – 22 September 2022)
2660-628: The Ancient Parish which had been fixed since at least the 12th century. Marylebone Town Hall was completed in 1920. Marylebone was the scene of the Balcombe Street siege in 1975, when Provisional Irish Republican Army terrorists held two people hostage for almost a week. Marylebone is characterised by major streets on a grid pattern such as Gloucester Place , Baker Street , Marylebone High Street , Wimpole Street , Harley Street and Portland Place , with smaller mews between
2736-693: The Anglo-Saxon word burna for a small stream). This stream rose further north in ( Hampstead ), eventually running along what became Marylebone Lane , which preserves its curve within the grid pattern. In the 17th century, under the influence of names like Mary-le-Bow , the French article le appeared midway in the parish name, and eventually St Mary-le-bourne became St Marylebone. Other spelling iterations include Mariburn , Marybone , and in Samuel Pepys ' diary, Marrowbone . The suggestion that
2812-493: The Marylebone Road there is an area with a colourful history, which includes the former Marylebone Gardens, whose entertainments including bare-knuckle fighting, a cemetery, a workhouse, and the areas frequented by Charles Wesley , all shut down by the close of the 18th century, where today there are mansion blocks and upper-end retail. At No. 1 Dorset Street resided mid-Victorian scientist Charles Babbage , inventor of
2888-621: The National Gallery scattered throughout the house, walls covered in tack holes and a drawing room inhabited by cats with no tails. During the same period a few hundred yards to the east, Chandos House in Chandos Street was used as the Austro-Hungarian Embassy and residence of the fabulously extravagant Ambassador Prince Paul Anton III Esterhazy, seeing entertainment on a most lavish scale. The building
2964-553: The Oxford Road (now Oxford St), commissioned the surveyor and builder John Prince to draw a master plan that set Cavendish Square in a rational grid system of streets. The Harley heiress Lady Margaret Cavendish Harley married William, 2nd Duke of Portland , and took the property, including Marylebone High Street , into the Bentinck family. Such place names in the neighbourhood as Cavendish Square and Portland Place reflect
3040-456: The Screw " (1898), the wealthy uncle at the beginning of the work apparently has a house on Harley Street. In the movie The Revenge of Frankenstein , Dr Victor Frankenstein aka Dr Franck after his brain transplant begins his medical practice on Harley Street W. In John Banville 's The Untouchable , Victor Maskell visits his doctor and is told "I should have thought you had died already, in
3116-572: The Second World War. In 1960s two-some John Dunbar and TV repairman " Magic Alex " lived on the street, where the former introduced the latter to John Lennon in 1967. Princess Alexandra, 2nd Duchess of Fife , who was a qualified nurse, founded a nursing home in Bentinck Street, and served as its matron. Manchester Square, west of Bentinck Street, has a central private garden with plane trees, laid out in 1776-88. The mansion on
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3192-476: The Thomas Cromwell trilogy, called The Mirror & the Light . The Mirror & the Light was selected for the longlist for the 2020 Booker Prize. In 2014, Mantel published a collection of 10 short stories, The Assassination of Margaret Thatcher , which The Guardian called a "flawed but absorbing selection" singling out the story Sorry to Disturb for praise. The New York Times described
3268-777: The Victorian Prime Minister William Ewart Gladstone , the artist J. M. W. Turner , and the speech therapist Lionel Logue . Queen's College , founded in 1848 and one of the oldest girls' schools in England, is situated on Harley Street. In Jane Austen 's Sense and Sensibility (1813), the Dashwood sisters, Lucy Steele, Mrs Jennings, Edward Ferrars, and others spend some of their free time there while in London. In Elizabeth Gaskell 's North and South (Gaskell novel) (1854-55), Margaret Hale lived with her aunt Mrs. Shaw and cousin Edith in
3344-507: The aforementioned families. The Howard de Walden Estate owns, leases and manages the majority of the 92 acres (37 ha) of real estate in Marylebone which comprises the area from Marylebone High Street in the west to Robert Adam 's Portland Place in the east and from Wigmore Street in the south to Marylebone Road in the north. In the 18th century the area was known for the raffish entertainments in Marylebone Gardens ,
3420-648: The analytical engine. Babbage complained that two adjacent hackney-coach stands in Paddington Street ruined the neighbourhood, leading to the establishment of coffee and beer shops, and furthermore, the character of the new population could be inferred from the taste they exhibited for the noisiest and most discordant music. An acclaimed international venue for chamber music, the Wigmore Hall , opened at 36 Wigmore Street in 1901. It hosts over 500 concerts each year. The Marylebone Low Emission Neighbourhood
3496-401: The author of a volume of poems, and who afterwards escaped and was better known as Elizabeth Barrett Browning . Today, at the bottom end of Wimpole at Wigmore can be found a sandwich shop named Barrett's. Bentinck Street leaves Welbeck Street and touches the middle of winding Marylebone Lane . Charles Dickens lived at number 18 with his indebted father (on whom the character Wilkins Micawber
3572-471: The collection as having "narrators much more outwardly meek and inwardly turbulent than the murderous royals and puppeteers so beloved in her historical fiction". The controversial title story is about an assassin who disguises himself as a plumber and takes over an apartment opposite the hospital where the Prime Minister is undergoing eye surgery. The woman who owns the apartment, and who is in effect
3648-578: The court of Henry VIII , and the second was for its 2012 sequel Bring Up the Bodies . The third installment of the Cromwell trilogy, The Mirror & the Light , was longlisted for the same prize. The trilogy has gone on to sell more than 5 million copies. Hilary Mary Thompson was born on 6 July 1952 in Glossop , Derbyshire, the eldest of three children, with two younger brothers, and raised as
3724-477: The east. The parish is likely to have been in place since at least the twelfth century and will have used the boundaries of the pre-existing manors. The boundaries of the parish were consistent from the late twelfth century to the creation of the Metropolitan Borough which succeeded it. The name Marylebone originates from an ancient hamlet located near today's Marble Arch , on the eastern banks of
3800-607: The events of a life are mediated as fiction. Her 2005 novel, Beyond Black , was shortlisted for the Orange Prize and longlisted for the Booker Prize in 2005. Novelist Pat Barker said it was "the book that should actually have won the Booker". Set in the late 1990s and early 2000s, it features a professional medium , Alison Hart, whose calm and jolly exterior conceals grotesque psychic damage. She trails around with her
3876-466: The greater part of the manor; in 1544 his son Thomas exchanged it with Henry VIII, who enclosed the northern part of the manor as a deer park , the distant origin of Regent's Park . Lilestone Manor also passed into the hands of the Crown at this time. Tyburn manor remained with the Crown until the southern part was sold in 1611 by James I, who retained the deer park, to Edward Forest, who had held it as
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#17327722646403952-614: The major streets. Mansfield Street is a short continuation of Chandos Street built by the Adam brothers in 1770, on a plot of ground which had been underwater. Most of its houses are fine buildings with exquisite interiors, which if put on the market now would have an expected price in excess of £10 million. At Number 13 lived religious architect John Loughborough Pearson who died in 1897, and designer of Castle Drogo and New Delhi Sir Edwin Lutyens , who died in 1944. Immediately across
4028-635: The name derives from Marie la Bonne , or "Mary the Good", is not substantiated. Both manors were mentioned in the Domesday Book of 1086. Domesday recorded eight households in each manor, implying a combined population of less than a hundred. At Domesday the Manor of Lilestone was valued at 60 shillings and owned by a woman called Ediva. Tyburn was a possession of the Nunnery of Barking Abbey and valued at 52 shillings. The ownership of both manors
4104-480: The name of which changed from Upper Marylebone Street after World War I . Number 13 in New Cavendish Street, at its junction with Welbeck Street and on the corner of Marylebone Street, was the birthplace in 1882 of the orchestral conductor Leopold Stokowski , the son of a Polish cabinet maker. He sang as a boy in the choir of St Marylebone Church. At the northern end of Marylebone High Street towards
4180-399: The neighbours in a city apartment block to explore the tensions between Islamic culture and the liberal West. Her Winifred Holtby Memorial Prize -winning novel Fludd (1989) is set in 1956 in a fictitious northern village called Fetherhoughton, centering on a Roman Catholic church and a convent. A mysterious stranger brings about transformations in the lives of those around him. Mantel
4256-464: The north side of the square, now the home of the Wallace Collection , once housed the Spanish ambassador, whose chapel was in Spanish Place . From the north-west corner is Manchester Street, final home of Georgian-era prophet Joanna Southcott , who died there in 1814. Marylebone has some Beatles heritage, with John Lennon's flat at 34 Montagu Square, and the original Apple Corps headquarters at 95 Wigmore Street. Bulstrode Street, small and charming,
4332-455: The police for an investigation was beyond anything I could have planned or hoped for, because it immediately exposes them to ridicule." Mantel discussed her religious views in her 2003 memoir, Giving Up the Ghost . Brought up as a Roman Catholic , she ceased to believe at age 12, but said the religion left a permanent mark on her: I took what I was told really seriously, it bred a very intense habit of introspection and self-examination and
4408-400: The prize. Mantel was presented with a trophy and a £50,000 cash prize during an evening ceremony at the Guildhall , London. The panel of judges, led by the broadcaster James Naughtie , described Wolf Hall as an "extraordinary piece of storytelling". Leading up to the award, the book was backed as the favourite by bookmakers and accounted for 45% of the sales of all the nominated books. It
4484-420: The problematised woman's body as a theme in her writing. She later became patron of the Endometriosis SHE Trust. Mantel died on 22 September 2022, aged 70, at a hospital in Exeter from complications of a stroke that occurred three days earlier. During her university years, Mantel identified as a socialist , and was a member of the Young Communist League . In a 2013 speech on media and royal women at
4560-503: The road at 61 New Cavendish Street lived Natural History Museum creator Alfred Waterhouse . Queen Anne Street is an elegant cross-street which unites the northern end of Chandos Street with Welbeck Street. The painter J. M. W. Turner moved to 47 Queen Anne Street in 1812 from 64 Harley Street, now divided into numbers 22 and 23, and owned the house until his death in 1851. It was known as "Turner's Den", becoming damp, dilapidated, dusty, dirty, with dozens of Turner's works of art now in
4636-409: The scene of bear-baiting and prize fights by members of both sexes, and for the duelling grounds in Marylebone Fields. The Marylebone Cricket Club , for many years the governing body of world cricket, was formed in 1787 and initially based at Dorset Fields before moving a short distance to its current home at Lord's Cricket Ground in 1814. Lord's is also home to Middlesex County Cricket Club and
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#17327722646404712-523: The south and Watling Street ( Edgware Road ) to the west, and positioned on both sides of the former River Tyburn which flowed from north to south. To the north (Boundary Road in St John's Wood) and east (running through Regent's Park and along Cleveland Street ), the area's boundaries have later been inherited as part of the northern and eastern boundary of the modern City of Westminster . This area includes localities such as St John's Wood , Lisson Grove and East Marylebone. East Marylebone has since
4788-454: The street and its many doctors offering services to rich clientele, to the backdrop of a vampire story. Each of the doctors have been given funny names to represent their expertise. "When the doctors scuffed in and out, I could hear their Lobbs scraping the carpets. I could hear Gland's wheezing and puffing; the snarls of her patients, and the sobs of the patients of Smear, as he pushed in with his cold speculum, while Mrs Bathurst stood by. I heard
4864-467: The theme of historical fiction. Her final one of these lectures was on the theme of adaptation of historical novels for stage or screen. Mantel's lectures were selected by its producer, Jim Frank, as amongst the best of the long-running series. Mantel married Gerald McEwen in 1973. They divorced in 1981 but remarried in 1982. McEwen gave up geology to manage his wife's business. They lived in Budleigh Salterton , Devon. During her twenties, Mantel had
4940-658: The whine and grind of Snapper's drill, and the chink of steel instruments against steel dishes." In Richard Osman 's The Bullet That Missed (2022): "Now the door opens, and Fiona Clemence pops her head around it. That auburn hair, so famous from the shampoo adverts, the full smile, so famous from the toothpaste adverts, and the cheekbones honed by genetics and Harley Street." 51°31′14″N 0°08′52″W / 51.5206°N 0.1477°W / 51.5206; -0.1477 Marylebone Marylebone (usually / ˈ m ɑːr l ɪ b ən / MAR -lib-ən , also / ˈ m ær ɪ ( l ə ) b ən / MARR -i(l-ə)b-ən )
5016-460: Was a Booker Prize judge in 1990, when A.S. Byatt's novel Possession was awarded the prize. A Place of Greater Safety (1992) became The Sunday Express Book of the Year , an award for which her two previous books had been shortlisted. This large-scale historical novel, informed by scholarly knowledge, traces the career of three French revolutionaries, Danton , Robespierre and Camille Desmoulins , from childhood to their early deaths during
5092-442: Was a British writer whose work includes historical fiction, personal memoirs and short stories. Her first published novel, Every Day Is Mother's Day , was released in 1985. She went on to write 12 novels, two collections of short stories, a memoir, and numerous articles and opinion pieces. Mantel won the Booker Prize twice: the first was for her 2009 novel Wolf Hall , a fictional account of Thomas Cromwell 's rise to power in
5168-521: Was based) while working as a court reporter in the 1830s, and Edward Gibbon wrote much of The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire while living at number 7 from the early 1770s. James Smithson wrote the will that led to the foundation of the Smithsonian Institution while living at number 9 in 1826, while number 10 was briefly graced by Chopin in 1848, who found his apartment too expensive and moved to Mayfair. More recently, Cambridge spies Anthony Blunt and Guy Burgess lived at 5 Bentinck Street during
5244-426: Was eleven, the family, except for her father, moved to Romiley , Cheshire , to escape the local gossip. She never saw her father again. When the family relocated, Jack Mantel (1932–1995) became her unofficial stepfather, and she legally took his surname. She attended Harrytown Convent school in Romiley , Cheshire. In 1970, she began studies at the London School of Economics to read law. She transferred to
5320-402: Was established by Barking Abbey, which held Manor of Tyburn, at an unknown date, but probably sometime in the 12th century. This church was located on the north side of Oxford Street, probably near the junction with Marylebone Lane. This site was subject to regular robbery and in 1400 a new church was built, around 900 metres further north. and given the name St Mary by the Bourne . This church
5396-612: Was established in 2016 to improve the air quality of the area. Westminster City Council in partnership with local residents, businesses and stakeholders completed a green grid of 800 new trees on Marylebone's streets in 2019. The area was represented by the St Marylebone UK Parliament constituency between 1918 and 1983. The area is currently divided between the Cities of London and Westminster and Westminster North parliamentary constituencies. These are represented by Nickie Aiken and Karen Buck respectively. The parish and borough were bounded by two Roman roads, Oxford Street to
5472-564: Was eventually released as A Place of Greater Safety in 1992). In 1977 Mantel moved with her husband to Botswana , where they lived for the next five years. Later, they spent four years in Jeddah , Saudi Arabia . She later said that leaving Jeddah felt like "the happiest day of [her] life". She published memoirs of this period in The Spectator , and the London Review of Books . Mantel's first novel, Every Day Is Mother's Day ,
5548-603: Was published in 1985, and its sequel, Vacant Possession , a year later. After returning to England, she became the film critic of The Spectator , a position she held from 1987 to 1991, and a reviewer for a number of papers and magazines in Britain and the United States. Her third novel, Eight Months on Ghazzah Street (1988), drew on her life in Saudi Arabia. It features a threatening clash of values between
5624-490: Was rebuilt in 1740 with a new building erected a little further north in 1817. In 1710, John Holles, Duke of Newcastle , purchased the manor for £17,500, and his daughter and heir, Lady Henrietta Cavendish Holles , by her marriage to Edward Harley, Earl of Oxford , passed it into the family of the Earl of Oxford, one of whose titles was Lord Harley of Wigmore. She and the earl, realising the need for fashionable housing north of
5700-516: Was the first favourite since 2002 to win the award. On receiving the prize, Mantel said that she would spend the prize money on "sex and drugs and rock' n' roll". The sequel to Wolf Hall , called Bring Up the Bodies , was published in May 2012 to wide acclaim. It won the Costa Book of the Year and the 2012 Man Booker Prize ; Mantel thus became the first British writer and the first woman to win
5776-653: Was the same as it had been before the Conquest. Lilestone became the property of the Knights Templar until their suppression in 1312. It then passed to the Order of Knights of the Hospital of Saint John of Jerusalem , whose name is the origin of the place name St John's Wood . Early in the 13th century Tyburn was held by Robert de Vere, 3rd Earl of Oxford . At the end of the 15th century Thomas Hobson bought up
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