The best-selling British author Dame Hilary Mantel is accused of the 'False History in some of its most famous novels by a professor at the University of Cambridge.
Mantel's Wolf Hall trilogy, which is called a 'milestone in historical fiction', shows the life of Thomas Cromwell as the main minister of Henry VIII.
The book earned the famous British author both the Booker Prize and the National Books Critics Circle Award and IT, and the continues, were adapted in a six-part BBC series with Claire Foy and Damian Lewis.
But now Eamon Duffy, a 78-year-old professor in the history of Christianity at the University of Cambridge, has accused Mantel of going to 'extremes' to change sources 'upside down'.
In particular, Duffy calls her image of Thomas More, a pious Catholic who famous to swear by swearing Henry VIII as the head of the church of England, the 'least successful' part of her trilogy.
The professor claims that mantle went to 'extreme' lengths to write more as a 'torture and misogynist'.
Dame Hilary Mantel (photo) died in 2022, only a matter of days after a stroke at the age of 70 –
Eamon Duffy (photo), 78, has accused Mantel of 'Falling' History in her famous novel Wolf Hall
“The trilogy of Hilary Mantel was self -conscious to rehabilitate Cromwell and thomas more out of his display in a man for all seasons, of which she thought it,” said Duffy in an interview with Idler Magazine.
“But she went to the other extreme and portrayed more like a monster, a torture and a misogynist whose female people were scared. And I think that display was the least successful piece of Wolf Hall.
'[Mantel] And I was on good conditions. The friendship has cooled somewhat when I wrote an essay about fictional treatments of the English Reformation, which focused on the end of Wolf Hall.
'I looked at the sources she used, what they say about more and what they say about Cromwell, and I showed that she turned the sources upside down on important issues and she let the opposite say the opposite of what they were originally meant to be about to suggest.
'Now that is legitimate in fiction, but in her lectures by Reith, Hilary suggested that the literary novelist could sincerely give insight that the historian was missing. Maybe, but I didn't think that was legitimate if you actually falsify the accounts.
Thomas More, the villain of Wolf Hall, was played by actor Anton Lesser in the BBC adaptation of the novels of Mantel
Thomas Cromwell, the Prime Minister of Henry VIII, is played by Mark Rylance in the BBC series
In further criticism, the history expert even referred to the novels of Mantel as 'gossip'.
“More has actually taken a solemn oath to deny this accusation,” he said.
“He said that if God is my judge, I never tortured anyone.
“Now you have to ask yourself, here is a deep religious man who had cut off his head instead of taking a false oath that takes an oath,” so help me God, I didn't do this. '
“Do you believe him or do you believe the stories and the gossip?”
Hilary Mantel died at the age of 70 in 2022 only a matter of days after a stroke. She was the first female author to win the book prize.
After her death, another of the greatest writers of Great Britain, JK Rowling, tributed to Dame Hilary and said, “We lost a genius.”
Only earlier this month was it revealed that Mantel left her entire £ 4 million to her childhood love husband, Gerald McEwen.
The couple married for the first time when the still to come author was only 20 years old after she met when she was 16.
