Dame Hilary Mantel introduced Inner Circle Seminar No. 205, the first of twelve seminars on Laing & Esterson, Sanity, Madness & the Family: Families of Schizophrenics. 1. Maya Abbott and the Abbotts, 50 years on. (Durrants Hotel, London, Sunday 6 July 2014.)

Adrian Laing         Anthony Stadlen        Hilary Mantel   

Deborah Fosbrook  Adrian Laing  Anthony Stadlen   Hilary Mantel

Inner Circle Seminar No. 205

Hilary Mantel and Anthony Stadlen conducted: Laing and Esterson, Sanity, Madness and the Family: Families of Schizophrenics. 1. Maya Abbott and the Abbotts, 50 years on. (Durrants Hotel, London, Sunday 6 July 2014.)


Hilary Mantel had just been made a Dame in the Queen’s Birthday Honours. The date of the seminar, 6 July, was also her own birthday. The message on the cake reads: ‘Happy Birthday Dame Hilary’.

For more information:

http://anthonystadlen.blogspot.co.uk/2013/12/laing-esterson-1-abbotts-50-years-on.html

‘The simple words the people speak’: An introduction to Hilary Mantel’s introduction to her and Anthony Stadlen’s (2014) 50th-anniversary Inner Circle Seminar on ‘Maya Abbott and the Abbotts’ in Laing and Esterson’s Sanity, Madness and the Family (1964) (January 2015)