In Competition No. 2879 you were invited to follow in the footsteps of Hilary Mantel and provide a scene that shows a well-known villain from history or literature in an uncharacteristically kindly light.
Mantel has said that she was driven by a ‘powerful curiosity’ rather than by any desire to rehabilitate Cromwell.
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