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CaroleH
 26 Mar 2012, 21:39 #146463 Reply To Post
Quote: rosalindwinter, Monday, 26 Mar 2012 21:00


Sorry,I've been away and have only just seen this. Yes, definitely worth persevering.
If you do get to the end, can you tell me why you think HM called the book "Wolf Hall"? Does anyone else know? I realise that Wolf Hall was the residence of the Seymours, but the novel stops before the Seymours really came to prominence, and none of the action actually takes place at Wolf Hall.


You will probably laugh at this, but as an ex-Seymour, I wondered about that myself, and came to the conclusion that she probably just liked the name! The Seymours would have been quite prominent at that time anyway, and also remained so for quite some time. I thought also that the name had other meanings, such as implying that the King's abode was probably a dog-eat-dog environment etc. The Seymours were quite an interesting family, if you read up about them.
Panurge3000
 31 Mar 2012, 20:38 #146672 Reply To Post
I thought the same thing - that it was being used as much figuratively as literally. Can't wait for the second book to come out. I thought 'Wolf Hall' was just amazing.
Elsewhere...
dancingsue
 01 Apr 2012, 10:21 #146696 Reply To Post
Quote: Mostar, Sunday, 18 Mar 2012 17:51
Hi Andrew

What made me curious was that I gave my friend a m/s to read. He's been excellent at tidying my material up. One of the things he did was to replace all my pronouns at the beginning of paragraphs to make them personal pronouns.



I'm not quite sure what you mean by this, but I'm tired and feeling a bit fick today. Can you give an example?

Reading aloud is an invaluable tool. If there are too many he's or she's, or too many repetitions of the names (very irritating) you will soon hear them. As a general rule, if no one else comes up who can be confused with the he or she, you don't need to use a name, except to break up the stream of pronouns or give something more emphasis. Sometimes it just improves the rhythm.
the long and the short of it

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