Fludd (1990) (edit title/settings)

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• Father Angwin: Parish priest of Fetherhoughton, has lost his beliefs, but knows his uneducated parishoners like their old religious habits, saints, Latin Mass. He likes his whiskey, a good argument of a theological kind, and a good book. Talks under his breath to the Bishop, whom he considers a fool.
• Miss Agnes Dempsey: Father Angwin's housekeeper listens at doors because acquiring "information was her positive duty and then what she did with it was a matter for her judgement and experience", superstitious, provider of before bed cocoa, one of the Children of Mary, has a flat mole above her lip that discomforts her not a little
• Bishop: Portly, modern prelate, called "His Corpulence" by Miss Dempsey, plans to modernize his parishes with vernacular mass, do away with superstitions and idolatry - purge the church of the statues of most of the saints. Likes tearing around his diocese in his big, black car and threatens to send a curate to help Father Angwin
• Judd McEvoy: a tobacco store owner from Netherhouton, a bystander and watcher of humanity, always there and seeing, but not a tell-tale
• Mother Perpetua/Perpiture/Purpit: Head of the nuns and the school of St. Thomas Aquinas Church and quick with the cane. A stumpy woman, with a hoarse flirtacious laugh. Father Angwin thinks of her as a cannibal.
• Sister Philomena: An young Irish nun, a strong, healthy girl. Had disgraced Aunt Dympfna and sister who failed to take her vows as a nun.
• Sister Anthony: Edlerly nun and a really terrible cook of the nunnery -
• Father Rudd: Add a description of this character.
• Roisin O'halloran
• Mudd
• Kathleen
• Mary
• Hudd
• Dymphna
• Cyril
• Thomas Aquinas

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• “The people of Fetherhoughton kept their eyes averted from the moors with a singular effort of will. They did not talk about them. Someone–it was the mark of an outsider–might find a wild dignity and grandeur in the landscape. The Fetherhoughtonians did not look at the landscape at all. They were not Emily Brontë, nor were they paid to be, and the very suggestion that the Brontë-like matter was to hand was enough to close their minds and occupy their eyes with their shoelaces. The moors were the vast cemetery of their imaginations.”

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• Christ died to free us from the burden of our sin, but he never, so far as she could see, lifted a finger to free us from our stupidity.

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• unforgiving about any aberration, deviation, eccentricity, or piece of originality. There was a spirit abroad in the village that discriminated so thoroughly against pretension that it also discriminated against ambition, even against literacy.

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• Netherhoughton
• Ireland
• Heaven
• St. Theresa
• Rome

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Authors & Contributors edit see section history

1. Hilary Mantel (Author)

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• Library of Congress: Add the Library of Congress Classification.
• Dewey: 823.914

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• Books › Literature & Fiction › World Literature › British › Contemporary
• Books › Literature & Fiction › Authors, A-Z › ( M ) › Mantel, Hilary
• Books › Literature & Fiction › Women's Fiction › Single Women
• Books › Literature & Fiction › Genre Fiction › Historical
• Books › Literature & Fiction › Contemporary