Sir Thomas More

In 1961 JP published under this name two historical novels for young people: The Young Elizabeth, illustrated by William Randell , and Meg Roper : Daughter of Sir Thomas More.

This was the long version, edited and put in print by Serenus Cressy (who had been chaplain to Lady Falkland 's son, and later converted to Catholicism and became a Benedictine monk).

Thomas More 's opposition to Henry VIII 's projected marriage to Anne Boleyn was unshakable. On 17 April 1534 he was imprisoned in the Tower of London as a political offender, having refused on 12...

MM was a portrait-painter and copyist, who left paintings in her family. The only one of her visual works known to survive, heavily retouched, hangs in the Bodleian Library in Oxford. It was thought to...

Dawson later recalled her as blithe and insouciant about set-texts and exams, preferring to roam over philosophical and literary ideas from Plato to Arthur Koestler . She was marvellously eclectic, with a passion...

Letters dating from the period of Thomas More 's imprisonment purport to incorporate dialogue between him and MR . Margaret Bowker in the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography argues that both sides of the case...

The month after Sir Thomas More was sent to the Tower for refusing to swear obedience to the Act of Succession, MR apparently wrote him a lamentable letter urging him to swear, that is to...

Her father was so pleased with her epistolary skills that he showed her letters to such luminaries as Reginald Pole (who at first would not believe that this was really her work) and John Veysey

The editorial paragraph in the original publication said that MB wrote so much like her grandfather that their styles could hardly be told apart (a great compliment), and expressed the hope of having her work...

In 1527 or early 1528 MR was painted by Hans Holbein the Younger , in a group portrait of all of Thomas More's household. From the painting Holbein made a drawing (not now extant) and...

The title-page explained that AS 's dream was that of the Improvement of the Condition of the Lower Classes in London. She opened by invoking the vision of More 's Utopia (1516) of citizens free...

Although Shakespeare 's Richard III clearly plays a major role in shaping the myth of Richard's villainy against which Tey writes, she alludes to this play only in passing, when a character comments on Laurence Olivier

Margaret More, together with her siblings and Margaret Giggs , made up a whole School taught in the More family home. They received an education which was exceptional in any case and even more so...

EB 's friendship with Frederic Leighton was in its early stages connected with her friendship with his sister Alexandra Orr (author of A Handbook to the Works of Robert Browning). When she ceased to...

JA was descended on her mother's side from Margaret Roper , daughter of Sir Thomas More , a translator and letter-writer whose reputation for learning as well as for heroic virtue was still alive.