Margaret Roper

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MR , though she is still known to history primarily as her father's daughter, was celebrated during her early-sixteenth-century lifetime for her letters and her translation of a theological treatise by Desiderius Erasmus .
Head and shoulders of Margaret Roper, part of a More family-group painting commissioned by a later generation from Rowland Lockey, based on an original by Hans Holbein the Younger, 1593, which does not survive. Roper wears a dark red and black gown, several strings of beads, and a gable hood decorated with pearl trim and gold stitching. National Portrait Gallery.

Milestones

Probably October 1505
Margaret More (later MR ) was born, the eldest of her family.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray, Brian Harrison, and Lawrence Goldman, editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography.
After 1 October 1524
Margaret Roper 's A Devout Treatise upon the Pater Noster (a translation of Precatio dominica in septem portiones distributa by Erasmus ) appeared anonymously, in a first edition which seems not to survive.
British Library Catalogue.
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, 1987, pp. 449 - 80.
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Summer 1544
MR died at not yet forty, probably in childbirth. She had been bearing children for more than twenty years.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray, Brian Harrison, and Lawrence Goldman, editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography.

Biography

Birth and Family

Probably October 1505
Margaret More (later MR ) was born, the eldest of her family.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray, Brian Harrison, and Lawrence Goldman, editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography.

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