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Most of you, by now, will have read about the sudden and unexpected passing of Hilary Mantel; a writer who I've come to admire enormously in recent years. I thought I'd collect together a masterpost of my favourites among her shorter essays, that you can read for free online:
No Passport Required (2002) - on nationality and identity
Written On Our Bodies (2003) - on female infertility and medical misogyny
Holy Disorders (2004) - on anorexia and sainthood
'Every part of my body hurt' (2004) - on endometriosis
Author, Author (2008) - on Virago Modern Classics, publishers of neglected women's fiction
Night Visions (2008) - on dreams and writing fiction
'Looking for female role models in nineteenth century novels' (2009)
The Shape We're In (2009) - fatphobia in relation to feminism and capitalism
The War Against Women (2009) - on 'A History of Women' by Marilyn French
Women Over 50 - The Invisible Generation (2009) - on aging and womanhood
Anne Boleyn: Witch, Bitch, Temptress, Feminist (2012)
'You have to experience it to know what fat is like' (2013) - on fatphobia
Hilary Mantel On Grief (2014)
'Endometriosis took my fertility, and part of my self' (2015)
Elizabeth Jane Howard: Hilary Mantel on the Novelist She Tells Everyone to Read (2016)
The Princess Myth (2017) - on Princess Diana