[26] HAUNTED BY THE SELF: AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL ECHOES IN THE SELECT FICTION OF HILARY MANTEL : ARTICLE INFO: Date of Submission: Mar 4, 2026, Revised: Mar 14, 2026, Accepted: Mar 16 , 2026, CrossRef D.O.I : https://doi.org/10.56815/ijmrr.v5i3.2026.268-274. How To Cite: Simmi Bano & B.D. Pandey (2026).  Haunted By the Self: Autobiographical Echoes in the Select Fiction of Hilary Mantel. International Journal of Multidisciplinary Research & Reviews 5(3), 268-274.

Simmi Bano; B.D. Pandey

Authors

Simmi Bano Research Scholar (Ph.D.), P.P.N. P.G. College, C.S.J.M. University, Kanpur, Uttar Pradesh, India
B.D. Pandey Professor, Head of Department, English, P.P.N. P.G. College, C.S.J.M. University, Kanpur, Uttar Pradesh, India.

Abstract

This research paper explores the autobiographical perspectives in the novel of Hilary Mantel. Hilary Mantel considered the most acclaimed British author of contemporary fiction. She remains unnoticed after the publication of her trilogy on Thomas Cromwell's life. The present article is an attempt to show autobiographical elements in her novels that Mantels focused on her family life, alienation, feminism, religion, power, politics and childhood. Hilary Mantel was suffering from Endometriosis, which causes her many pain and infertility. Her life was fairly lonely and austere. Though Mantel's novels historical in content but in some context it contains autobiographical elements and intimate details of her life especially Every Day is a Mother’s Day (1985), Vacant Possession (1986), Eight Months on Gazzah Streets (1988), A change in climate (1994), An experiment in love (1995), a collection of short-stories Learning to Talk (2003), and a memoir Giving up the Ghost (2003).She deals with loss of dream, faith, children, childhood, religion, migration and roots.