Sir Thomas More

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Standard Name: More, Sir Thomas

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Theme or Topic Treated in Text Barbara Hofland
BH explains that she intends to vindicate the character of Richard III (who in her view came back as Perkin Warbeck ) and expose Henry VII as a villain. She used the British Museum again...
Textual Production Margaret Roper
Many of her lost works must have been apprentice pieces written in Greek or Latin to hone her skills in those languages. Her works known by repute include the difficult assignment, in answer to a...
Textual Production Margaret Roper
Romuald I. Lakowski has argued that MR (and not her father ) was the author of a poem (two quatrains and a couplet) inscribed in the copy of Treatise concernynge the fruytfull saynges of David...
Textual Production Jean Plaidy
In the following year, 1952, and under the same pseudonym, JP shifted her historical lens for the novel Daughter of Satan, which examines the persecution of witches and Puritans in the 16th and 17th...
Textual Production Elizabeth Shirley
Margaret Clement , 1540-1612, was the adoptive grand-daughter of Sir Thomas More , a Catholic heroine and an exemplary nun. Her biographer calls her our good grandmother and a firebrand to inkendell me in the...
Textual Production Ruth Rendell
RR published Murder Being Once Done, a novel dealing with fears of illness and death. Its title is quoted from Sir Thomas More 's Utopia.
British Books in Print. J. Whitaker and Sons.
1973
Benstock, Bernard, and Thomas F. Staley, editors. Dictionary of Literary Biography 87. Gale Research.
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Textual Production Margaret Roper
Either MR , or her father , or both in concert, wrote to her stepsister Lady Alington , informing her of their debates about the danger More was incurring for the sake of his conscience.
McCutcheon, Elizabeth. “Margaret More Roper: The Learned Woman in Tudor England”. Women Writers of the Renaissance and Reformation, edited by Katharina M. Wilson, University of Georgia Press, pp. 449-80.
472-5, 477
Textual Production Anne Manning
In AM 's novel The Household of Sir Thomas More, as in Mary Powell, a woman (Margaret More, later Roper ) ostensibly writes of a famous man: the ascription of authorship on...
Textual Features E. Nesbit
Salome and the Head deals quite revealingly with female sexual experience. It is set at Yalding on the Medway. Sandra, its heroine, a dancer famous for her rendering of Wilde 's Salome (to Strauss
Textual Features Margaret Roper
In a late letter to Mine own most entirely beloved father ,MR continues to use the elaborate phrases typical of contemporary epistolary style (if all the world had been given to me, as...
Textual Features Elizabeth Shirley
As a member of her community Shirley wrote for the good of that community. Though she professed to judge herself unworthy, she thought it her duty & part to write, hoping to inspire all those...
Textual Features Josephine Butler
In a tone reminiscent of Thomas More 's Utopia, she protests the obvious double standard for men and for women, noting that according to the Contagious Diseases Acts, a crime has been created in...
Textual Features Aemilia Lanyer
The title is the Latin greeting with which the gospels say Roman soldiers mocked the captured Christ: Hail God, King of the Jews!AL said it had come to her in a dream many years...
Residence E. Nesbit
In May 1899 the Bland household moved to Well Hall in Eltham, then just south of London: a large and gracious Queen Anne house with cedar trees and a moat. It stood on the...
Residence Mary More
MM , then Mary Waller, may have lived abroad, perhaps in Hamburg, during her first marriage. Shortly before her second marriage she was living in an imposing house in Ironmonger Lane, London.
Makin, Bathsua et al. Educating English Daughters. Editors Teague, Frances et al., Iter Academic Press; Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies.
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Timeline

1508: Desiderius Erasmus, while staying with Sir...

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1508

Desiderius Erasmus , while staying with Sir Thomas More on his second visit to England, wrote his Encomium Moriae (also known as In Praise of Folly), which was published the following year.

1516: Sir Thomas More published, not in England...

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1516

Sir Thomas More published, not in England but at Louvain, his socio-politicalsatire and fantasyUtopia, written in Latin.

About September 1521: Erasmus reported his approval of his friend...

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About September 1521

Erasmus reported his approval of his friend Thomas More 's action in giving his whole household an education in good literature
Erasmus, Desiderius. Collected Works of Erasmus. Editors Schoeck, Richard J. and Beatrice Corrigan, University of Toronto Press.
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(females equally with males).

March 1524: Erasmus's Abbatis et Eruditae was published...

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March 1524

Erasmus 's Abbatis et Eruditae was published in his Colloquies.

About 1529: The Instruction of a Christian Woman, translated...

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About 1529

The Instruction of a Christian Woman, translated by Richard Hyrde from Juan Luis Vives of Valencia in Spain, was published, after the translator's death.

1887: Pope Leo XIII beatified Sir Thomas More....

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1887

Pope Leo XIII beatified Sir Thomas More .

2 July 1927: Crosby Hall in Chelsea (a building originally...

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2 July 1927

Crosby Hall in Chelsea (a building originally located in Bishopsgate in the City of London, once owned by Sir Thomas More , probably later rented by Mary Sidney Herbert, Countess of Pembroke , moved stone...

June 1961: Margaret Stanley Wrench wrote and published...

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June 1961

Margaret Stanley Wrench wrote and published a book for children entitled The Story of Thomas More, illustrated by Kenneth Ody .

Texts

Guthkelch, Adolph Charles, and Sir Thomas More. “Note; Introduction”. Utopia, edited by George Sampson and George Sampson, G. Bell and Sons, 1914, p. v - vii; xi-xxv.
More, Sir Thomas. “Of the sorowe, werinesse, feare, and prayer of Christ before hys taking”. The Workes of Sir Thomas More Knyght, edited by William Rastell and William Rastell, translated by. Mary Basset, John Cawod, John Waly, and Richarde Tottell, 1557, pp. 1350-04.
More, Sir Thomas, and Sir Thomas More. “Of the sorowe, werinesse, feare, and prayer of Christ before hys taking”. Early Tudor Translators, edited by Lee Cullen Khanna, translated by. Mary Basset, Ashgate, 2001.
More, Sir Thomas. St. Thomas More’s History of the Passion. Editor Hallett, Philip Edward, Translator Basset, Mary, Burns, Oates, and Washbourne, 1941.
More, Sir Thomas. The Complete Works of St. Thomas More. Yale University Press, 1997.