AN EXPERIMENT IN LOVE

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Mantel, Hilary (6 February 2003). "Memories of Catriona". London Review of Books . Retrieved 26 September 2022. The experiment in love of the title is not the usual amorous one or ones, focussing instead on friendship and mutual support. It can hardly be described as friendship: they don't seem to like each other all that much, but they do take care of and look out for each other, feeling some sort of bond.

An Experiment in Love (1995) by Hilary Mantel is the story of one girl’s passage into womanhood. Carmel is an unexceptional girl from Lancashire, who finds herself studying Law at university in London in 1970, at a time of great social upheaval. Having attended an all-girl Catholic school as a child, Carmel is green to the world, but in London she is joined by two fellow classmates from home: Karina, a distant and difficult girl from a European family, and Julianne, an accomplished young lady who becomes Carmel’s roommate. Along with other girls – Clare, a devout Christian; Lynette, a wealthy European - all three navigate their way through the claustrophobic atmosphere of university halls, where their behaviour is under strict observation and their lives are controlled more than a newly liberated generation might care to have imagined. The sheen of expected freedom soon rubs thin as worries about friendships, relationships, money, and health begin to drag Carmel down. It’s a rough if quietly internalised induction into adult life for all the girls, and the few terms they spend together threaten to leave a permanent mark on their young lives. This notion is nearly identical to one of Buddhism’s four brahmaviharas, or divine attitudes — the concept of Metta, often translated as lovingkindness or benevolence. The parallel speaks not only to Dr. King’s extraordinarily diverse intellectual toolkit of influences and inspirations — a high form of combinatorial creativity necessary for any meaningful contribution to humanity’s common record— but also to the core commonalities between the world’s major spiritual and philosophical traditions. Hilary Mantel is photographed for the New York Times on February 24, 2020 in Sunningdale, England. (Photo by Ellie Smith/Contour)". Getty Images. 24 February 2020 . Retrieved 11 October 2022. Natural experiment: Another name for a natural experiment is a quasi-experiment. In this type of experiment, the researcher does not directly control the independent variable, plus there may be other variables at play. Here, the goal is establishing a correlation between the independent and dependent variable. For example, in the formation of new elements a scientist hypothesizes that a certain collision between particles creates a new atom. But, other outcomes may be possible. Or, perhaps only decay products are observed that indicate the element, and not the new atom itself. Many fields of science rely on natural experiments, since controlled experiments aren’t always possible.

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A 2011 study conducted at Stony Brook University in New York state found that it is possible to be madly in love with someone after decades of marriage. The research team, which included Fisher, performed MRI scans on couples who had been married an average of 21 years. They found the same intensity of activity in dopamine-rich areas of the brains as found in the brains of couples who were newly in love. The study suggested that the excitement of romance can remain while the apprehension is lost. At the age of ten, Carmel's mother pushes her to take the a scholarship exam for the Holy Redeemer, a prestigious Catholic secondary school, and persuades Karina's mother Mary to let Karina apply as well. Both girls are successful and it is here they meet Julianne (as she is then known) for the first time. Congregation of the Regent House for Honorary Degrees on Tuesday, 18 June 2013: Notice". Cambridge University Reporter. 22 April 2013 . Retrieved 30 January 2016. It would be nice if we went about and talked like an Edna O'Brien novel," Julianne says. "It would suit us."

O'Reilly, Sally; Towheed, Shafquat (4 March 2020). "A little literary tourism: in search of Hilary Mantel". Department of English and Creative Writing. The Open University. Archived from the original on 26 September 2022 . Retrieved 26 September 2022. Many theories of love, said Schwartz and Olds, propose that there is an inevitable change over time from passionate love to what is typically called compassionate love—love that is deep but not as euphoric as that experienced during the early stages of romance. That does not, however, mean that the spark of romance is quenched for long-married couples. Hilary Mary Thompson was born on 6 July 1952 in Glossop, Derbyshire, [7] the eldest of three children, with two younger brothers, and raised as a Roman Catholic [8] in the mill village of Hadfield, where she attended StCharles Roman Catholic Primary School. Rees, Jasper (8 October 2009). "Hilary Mantel: health or the Man Booker Prize? I'd take health". The Telegraph . Retrieved 30 July 2011. Author Margaret Atwood championed the book in a review in The New York Times when it was first published in the U.S., stating that the "pleasures of the novel [...] are many". [1] Author Zadie Smith included the novel as part of a course syllabus which leaked online in 2013. [2]Anderson, Hephzibah (19 April 2009). "Hilary Mantel: on the path from pain to prizes". The Observer . Retrieved 30 July 2011.

It is a sad, sad tale, very English and it reminded me of Anne Enright's The Gathering. Somehow, Mantel's writing just drags you into the hearts of her characters and keeps you there feeling all their sufferings, fleeting joys, hopes and confusions, as they move through their lives. It is actually excruciating but that is often just what I want in a novel.

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Lasdun, James (24 September 2014). "The Assassination of Margaret Thatcher review – Hilary Mantel's new collection". The Guardian . Retrieved 23 November 2022. Edemariam, Aida (12 September 2009). "I accumulated an anger that would rip a roof off". The Guardian. London.