Mary Roper (later MB
) was taught as a child to read Greek and Latin. Her mother tried to get Roger Ascham
to teach her, but found him unwilling to leave Cambridge University. (He did...
Literary responses
Mary Basset
The editorial paragraph in the original publication said that MB
wrote so much like her grandfather that their styles could hardly be told apart (a great compliment), and expressed the hope of having her work...
Textual Production
Mary Basset
She was said by Nicholas Harpsfield
to have also translated from early churchmen: the ascetic Evagrius
, bishop Theodoretus
, the ecclesiastical historians Sozomenus
and Socrates Scholasticus
. But she was too modest, said Harpsfield...
