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Margaret Roper
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Standard Name: Roper, Margaret
Birth Name: Margaret More
Nickname: Meg
Married Name: Margaret Roper
Pseudonym: A Yong vertuous and well lerned gentylwoman of XIX yere of
age
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
.
Connections
| Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Anthologization | Mary Basset | The title that appears at the head of MB
's own prose is Of the sorowe, werinesse, feare, and prayer of Christ before hys taking . . . , 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. 13[51] This page is misnumbered 1319... |
| Family and Intimate relationships | Dorothy Leigh | Her family is also unidentified. Her father was probably William Kempe of Finchingfield in Essex. The idea formerly canvassed by scholars that she was the daughter of the Robert and Elizabeth Kempe, which would... |
| Family and Intimate relationships | Jane Austen | JA
was descended on her mother's side from Margaret Roper
, daughter of Sir Thomas More
, a translator and letter-writer whose reputation for learning as well as for heroic virtue was still alive. Dunning, Ronald. “Family connections were always worth preserving”. JASNA News, Vol. 34 , No. 2, 1 June 2018– 2024, p. 9. Dunning, Ronald. “Family connections were always worth preserving”. JASNA News, Vol. 34 , No. 2, 1 June 2018– 2024, p. 9. |
| Family and Intimate relationships | Mary Basset | Her mother was Margaret Roper
, who achieved fame in her own right as a scholar and translator. She died in summer 1544. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. under Margaret Roper |
| Family and Intimate relationships | John Donne | His father died when he was four, and his mother married again. He was connected by marriage with the family of Sir Thomas More
and Margaret Roper
. |
| 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. Plaidy, Jean, and William Randell. The Young Elizabeth. Roy Publishers, 1961. title-page OCLC WorldCat. 1992–1998, http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999. |
| Reception | Elizabeth Elstob | When George Ballard
met Elstob years later she must have mentioned this unfinished project, for he was soon questioning her about Margaret Roper
and Mary Astell
. Perry, Ruth, and George Ballard. “Introduction”. Memoirs of Several Ladies of Great Britain, Wayne State University Press, 1985, pp. 12-48. 25 |
| 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 | 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... |
| Textual Features | Anne Manning | As narrator, Margaret More, later Roper
, has to negotiate (without forfeiting her claim to womanly modesty) the communication of her fame in her own lifetime for her erudition and for her heroic courage at... |
| Textual Features | E. Nesbit | |
| Textual Production | Anne Manning | 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... |
| Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Judith Sargent Murray | She backs this pleasure in modernity with a remarkable grasp of former female history and of the women's literary tradition in English and its contexts. She mentions the Greek foremother Sappho
, the patriotic heroism... |
| Travel | Mary Ward | She travelled over the Whit Sunday holiday, spending the festival at Canterbury and proceeding on her journey with a widow, Mrs Catharine Bentley
, a descendant of Margaret Roper
(a married woman, not the nun... |
Timeline
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.
Barbour, Paula L., and Bathsua Makin. “Introduction”. An Essay to Revive the Antient Education of Gentlewomen, William Andrews Clark Memorial Library, University of California, 1980, p. iii - xi.
v
Erasmus, Desiderius. Collected Works of Erasmus. Editors Schoeck, Richard J. and Beatrice Corrigan, University of Toronto Press, 1974–2024, 84 vols.
39: 499
March-June 1670: The Sacred Historie, a verse paraphrase of...
Women writers item
March-June 1670
The Sacred Historie, a verse paraphrase of the book of Genesis probably written by Mary Roper
, dedicated to Queen Catherine of Braganza
, was beautifully transcribed for presentation.
Millman, Jill Seal. “’The Sacred Historie’: Brotherton Library MS Lt q 2, A Royalist Verse Paraphrase of Genesis by a Woman, c. 1670”. Leviathan to Licensing Act (1650-1737): Theatre, Print and their Contexts Conference, Loughborough, 15 Sept. 2004.
1864: Famous Girls who have become Illustrious...
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1864
Famous Girls who have become Illustrious Women: Forming Models for Imitation by the Young Women of England, a very popular book of biographical sketches by John M. Darton
, was published.
The Athenaeum Index of Reviews and Reviewers: 1830-1870. http://replay.web.archive.org/20070714065452/http://www.soi.city.ac.uk/~asp/v2/home.html.
Solo: Search Oxford University Libraries Online. 18 July 2011, http://solo.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?vid=OXVU1&fromLogin=true&reset_config=true.
2 July 1927: Crosby Hall in Chelsea (a building originally...
Building item
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...
Texts
Erasmus, Desiderius. A Devout Treatise upon the Pater Noster. Translator Roper, Margaret, Thomas Berthelet.
Roper, Margaret, and Lee Cullen Khanna. “A Devout Treatise upon the Pater Noster”. Early Tudor Translators: Margaret Beaufort, Margaret More Roper and Mary Basset, Ashgate, 2001.