Dunning, Ronald. “Family connections were always worth preserving”. JASNA News, Vol.
34
, No. 2, p. 9. Sir Thomas More
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Connections
| Connections | Author name Sort descending | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| 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, p. 9. |
| Friends, Associates | Emilie Barrington | EB
's friendship with Frederic Leighton
was in its early stages connected with her friendship with his sister Alexandra Orr
(author of A Handbook to the Works of Robert Browning). When she ceased to... |
| Family and Intimate relationships | Mary Basset | Despite her personal achievements, Margaret Roper's fame has and to some extent still does rest primarily on her status as the eldest and favourite daughter of Thomas More
, Lord Chancellor of England under Henry VIII |
| 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 Features | Josephine Butler | In a tone reminiscent of Thomas More
's Utopia, she protests the obvious double standard for men and for women, noting that according to the Contagious Diseases Acts, a crime has been created in... |
| 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
. |
| Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Barbara Hofland | BH
explains that she intends to vindicate the character of Richard III
(who in her view came back as Perkin Warbeck
) and expose Henry VII
as a villain. She used the British Museum
again... |
| Publishing | Julian of Norwich | This was the long version, edited and put in print by Serenus Cressy
(who had been chaplain to Lady Falkland
's son, and later converted to Catholicism and became a Benedictine monk). Julian of Norwich,. “Introduction”. A Book of Showings, edited by Edmund Colledge and James Walsh, Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies, pp. 1-198. 13 He was... |
| Textual Features | Aemilia Lanyer | The title is the Latin greeting with which the gospels say Roman soldiers mocked the captured Christ: Hail God, King of the Jews!AL
said it had come to her in a dream many years... |
| 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... |
| Education | Margaret Haig, Viscountess Rhondda | St Leonard's emphasized intellectual, physical, and domestic development; girls were allowed the freedom of unsupervised daily walks. At this school Margaret learned to debate the merits of Erasmus
, Martin Luther
, and Sir Thomas More |
| Family and Intimate relationships | Mary More | His may have had some historical link with that of the humanist Sir Thomas More
, with whose descendants he did business. He died in 1698. Makin, Bathsua et al. Educating English Daughters. Editors Teague, Frances et al., Iter Academic Press; Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies. 105-6 |
| Residence | Mary More | MM
, then Mary Waller, may have lived abroad, perhaps in Hamburg, during her first marriage. Shortly before her second marriage she was living in an imposing house in Ironmonger Lane, London. Makin, Bathsua et al. Educating English Daughters. Editors Teague, Frances et al., Iter Academic Press; Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies. 100 |
| Occupation | Mary More | MM
was a portrait-painter and copyist, who left paintings in her family. The only one of her visual works known to survive, heavily retouched, hangs in the Bodleian Library
in Oxford. It was thought to... |
| Occupation | Iris Murdoch | Dawson later recalled her as blithe and insouciant about set-texts and exams, preferring to roam over philosophical and literary ideas from Plato
to Arthur Koestler
. Dawson, Jennifer. “Impressions of Iris Murdoch, Teacher, in 1951”. The Ship, Vol. 91 , pp. 52-3. 52 |
Timeline
1508: Desiderius Erasmus, while staying with Sir...
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1508
Desiderius Erasmus
, while staying with Sir Thomas More
on his second visit to England, wrote his Encomium Moriae (also known as In Praise of Folly), which was published the following year.
1516: Sir Thomas More published, not in England...
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1516
Sir Thomas More
published, not in England but at Louvain, his socio-politicalsatire and fantasyUtopia, written in Latin.
About September 1521: Erasmus reported his approval of his friend...
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About September 1521
Erasmus
reported his approval of his friend Thomas More
's action in giving his whole household an education in good literature
Erasmus, Desiderius. Collected Works of Erasmus. Editors Schoeck, Richard J. and Beatrice Corrigan, University of Toronto Press.
8: 297
March 1524: Erasmus's Abbatis et Eruditae was published...
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March 1524
About 1529: The Instruction of a Christian Woman, translated...
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About 1529
The Instruction of a Christian Woman, translated by Richard Hyrde
from Juan Luis Vives
of Valencia in Spain, was published, after the translator's death.
1887: Pope Leo XIII beatified Sir Thomas More....
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1887
Pope Leo XIII
beatified Sir Thomas More
.
2 July 1927: Crosby Hall in Chelsea (a building originally...
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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...
June 1961: Margaret Stanley Wrench wrote and published...
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June 1961
Margaret Stanley Wrench
wrote and published a book for children entitled The Story of Thomas More, illustrated by Kenneth Ody
.
Texts
Guthkelch, Adolph Charles, and Sir Thomas More. “Note; Introduction”. Utopia, edited by George Sampson and George Sampson, G. Bell and Sons, 1914, p. v - vii; xi-xxv.
More, Sir Thomas. “Of the sorowe, werinesse, feare, and prayer of Christ before hys taking”. The Workes of Sir Thomas More Knyght, edited by William Rastell and William Rastell, translated by. Mary Basset, John Cawod, John Waly, and Richarde Tottell, 1557, pp. 1350-04.
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.
More, Sir Thomas. St. Thomas More’s History of the Passion. Editor Hallett, Philip Edward, Translator Basset, Mary, Burns, Oates, and Washbourne, 1941.
More, Sir Thomas. The Complete Works of St. Thomas More. Yale University Press, 1997.