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.
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Sir Thomas More
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Standard Name: More, Sir Thomas
Connections
| Connections | Author name Sort descending | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| 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. |
| 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 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... |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Anna Swanwick | The title-page explained that AS
's dream was that of the Improvement of the Condition of the Lower Classes in London. British Library Catalogue. http://explore.bl.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?dscnt=0&tab=local_tab&dstmp=1489778087340&vid=BLVU1&mode=Basic&fromLo. |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Josephine Tey | 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 |
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