Mary Basset

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MB was a significant member among the band of sixteenth-century women who were classical scholars and translators. Only two of what are said to have been her many translations survive.

Milestones

After 1523

MB was born into a family already well-known in English cultural life.
Her mother's marriage licence was issued on 2 July 1521. The Feminist Companion (like various submissions to the International Genealogical Index) calls Mary the eldest child of the marriage and dates her birth as 1522, but the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography says that Elizabeth, born 1523, was the eldest and Mary the second child.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.

1557

William Rastell included in his edition of The Workes of Sir Thomas More, Knyght . . . wrytten by him in the Englysh tonge the translation by MB of the Latin section of More's Treatise upon the Passion, a section known as De tristitia.
This work has been reproduced in facsimile in 1931 and (by the Scolar Press from a copy in Cambridge University Library ) in 1978.
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.
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.

20 March 1572

MB died in London at not yet fifty.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.

Biography

Birth and Family

After 1523

MB was born into a family already well-known in English cultural life.
Her mother's marriage licence was issued on 2 July 1521. The Feminist Companion (like various submissions to the International Genealogical Index) calls Mary the eldest child of the marriage and dates her birth as 1522, but the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography says that Elizabeth, born 1523, was the eldest and Mary the second child.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.

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