Sir Thomas More

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Standard Name: More, Sir Thomas

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Material Conditions of Writing Margaret Roper
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...
Material Conditions of Writing Margaret Roper
Letters dating from the period of Thomas More 's imprisonment purport to incorporate dialogue between him and MR . Margaret Bowker in the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography argues that both sides of the case...
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.
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She was marvellously eclectic, with a passion...
politics Margaret Roper
Thomas More 's opposition to Henry VIII 's projected marriage to Anne Boleyn was unshakable. On 17 April 1534 he was imprisoned in the Tower of London as a political offender, having refused on 12...
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.
title-page
OCLC WorldCat. http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.
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.
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He was...
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.
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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 Margaret Roper
In a late letter to Mine own most entirely beloved father ,MR continues to use the elaborate phrases typical of contemporary epistolary style (if all the world had been given to me, as...
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 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...
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 Features E. Nesbit
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
Textual Production Jean Plaidy
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...

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