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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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
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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
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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...
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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
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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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...
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.
8: 297
(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.
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...
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.