Sir Thomas More

The month after Sir Thomas More was sent to the Tower for refusing to swear obedience to the Act of Succession, MR apparently wrote him a lamentable letter urging him to swear, that is to...

Either MR , or her father , or both in concert, wrote to her stepsister Lady Alington , informing her of their debates about the danger More was incurring for the sake of his conscience.

RR published Murder Being Once Done, a novel dealing with fears of illness and death. Its title is quoted from Sir Thomas More 's Utopia.

In the following year, 1952, and under the same pseudonym, JP shifted her historical lens for the novel Daughter of Satan, which examines the persecution of witches and Puritans in the 16th and 17th...

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.

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...

Salome and the Head deals quite revealingly with female sexual experience. It is set at Yalding on the Medway. Sandra, its heroine, a dancer famous for her rendering of Wilde 's Salome (to Strauss

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 . She was marvellously eclectic, with a passion...

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.

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.

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...

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

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...

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...

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).