HM
transferred from the LSE to the Law faculty of the University of Sheffield
in order to be with her boyfriend, Gerald
, who was studying geological science there.
“Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC.
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Mantel, Hilary. Giving up the Ghost. Fourth Estate, 2003.
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Family and Intimate relationships
Hilary Mantel
HM
and her boyfriend, Gerald McEwan
, decided to marry, to the great displeasure of her parents, since it was impossible for them to live together as unmarried students.
Mantel, Hilary. “’Every part of my body hurt’”. Guardian Unlimited, 7 June 2004.
Family and Intimate relationships
Hilary Mantel
Three years after their divorce, HM
remarried her husband
at Maidenhead, in Berkshire.
Mantel, Hilary. Giving up the Ghost. Fourth Estate, 2003.
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Family and Intimate relationships
Hilary Mantel
Gerald McEwan
's family was well above HM
's socially, as his father was a professional man, and she describes their family life as stable by contrast to her own.
Mantel, Hilary. Giving up the Ghost. Fourth Estate, 2003.
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Residence
Hilary Mantel
HM
arrived in Lobatse, Botswana, where she lived until 1982 while her husband
held a post in Southern Africa with the Geological Survey of Botswana
.
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Residence
Hilary Mantel
HM
lived in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, again accompanying her husband
. There, as a woman living in a place where . . . I have not even the right to be seen,
Mantel, Hilary. “No Passes or Documents Are Needed: The Writer at Home in Europe”. On Modern British Fiction, edited by Zachary Leader, Oxford University Press, 2002, pp. 93-106.