#16th-century anti-catholicism yes but/and i continue to be obsessed with mantel's writerly imagination
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From behind the papist virgin with her silver shoes there creeps another woman, poor, her feet bare and calloused, her swarthy face plastered with the dust of the road. Her belly is heavy with salvation and the weight drags and makes her back ache.
The Mirror and the Light, Hilary Mantel
#16th-century anti-catholicism yes but/and i continue to be obsessed with mantel's writerly imagination#the mirror and the light#hilary mantel#the way she writes about theology fascinates me#as well as the way she writes about history obviously#[insert quip about 16th-century English history being inseparable from Anglican wrangling]#book quotes
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