Plaidy, Jean, and William Randell. The Young Elizabeth. Roy Publishers.
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Sir Thomas More
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Standard Name: More, Sir Thomas
Connections
| Connections | Author name Sort descending | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| 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... |
| Textual Features | E. Nesbit | |
| Textual Production | Jean Plaidy | |
| Publishing | Jean Plaidy | 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. OCLC WorldCat. http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999. |
| 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. 312 |
| 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... |
| Family and Intimate relationships | Margaret Roper | MR
and her father
together watched from the Tower of London, where More was imprisoned, as five priests (one a personal friend) were tied to hurdles on which they would be dragged to the... |
| Family and Intimate relationships | Margaret Roper | Sir Thomas More
, MR
's father, was beheaded (the sentence commuted from hanging because of the high office he had held), and his severed head displayed on a spike on Tower Bridge as that... |
| Material Conditions of Writing | Margaret Roper | 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... |
| 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 |
| Family and Intimate relationships | Margaret Roper | The family of Thomas More
were merchants and lawyers of London's bourgeois ruling class: Thomas duly became a lawyer and out of personal passion became a scholar of the new humanist learning. He married again... |
| Instructor | Margaret Roper | Margaret More, together with her siblings and Margaret Giggs
, made up a whole School Blain, Virginia et al., editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford. |
| Leisure and Society | Margaret Roper | 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... |
| politics | Margaret Roper | 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... |
| Literary responses | Margaret Roper | 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 |
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