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Rachel Campbell

Rachel Campbell Rachel Campbell studied art in both New Zealand and Canada, and has also spent time living and exhibiting in the United Kingdom and Germany. She now lives in Durham, North Carolina. Her work is in private and public collections in over a dozen countries.

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Durham Autumn

by Rachel Campbell | Tuesday, September 03, 2019

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The Story of a Stare Down

by Penelope Rowlands

Hilary Mantel, one of Britain’s most revered novelists, died last year at the age of 70. She is beloved for her sweeping Wolf Hall trilogy, for which she won two Booker Prizes. But long before rehabilitating Thomas Cromwell’s reputation, Mantel was unparalleled in her crystalline dissections of power, whether between girls at the University of London or Dantonists in the French Revolution. In honor of Mantel’s enormous contributions to literature, dive back into her Tudor world with Penelope Rowlands’s essay about one of the key power dynamics Mantel explored: that between Cromwell and Sir Thomas More.

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