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Wolf Hall is a 2009 historical novel by English author Hilary Mantel, published by Fourth Estate, named after the Seymour family's seat of Wolfhall, or Wulfhall, in Wiltshire.
- Hilary Mantel
- 2009
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Apr 5, 2015 · Novels, books, and television shows just can't get enough of the history behind Henry VIII, his six wives, and Thomas Cromwell, so how historically true is the new miniseries Wolf Hall?
- Caitlin Gallagher
Apr 6, 2015 · Based on the novels Wolf Hall and Bring Up the Bodies by Hilary Mantel (both of which won the Man Booker Prize), Wolf Hall follows the true story of Henry VIII’s struggle to divorce...
Apr 3, 2015 · "Wolf Hall" is based on the historical novels by Hilary Mantel and is set in the reign of King Henry VIII.
Oct 21, 2021 · In “Wolf Hall” it is More, the great imaginer of utopia, who is the ruthless tormentor of English Protestants, using the rack and the ax to set the “quaking world” aright. “Utopia,” Cromwell...
- Christopher Benfey
Feb 18, 2015 · Wolf Hall was meant to be a novel about Thomas Cromwell, but something went wrong. Wolf Hall itself, the country seat of Jane Seymour’s family, is only mentioned right at the end. Somewhere along the way the book was hijacked by its pantomime villain, Thomas More.
Although Wolf Hall is based on real-life events, it is a fictionalised account of Thomas Cromwell and narrates his perspective of the events leading up to Henry becoming the head of the Church of England from 1500-1535.
