Sir Thomas More

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...

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 .

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...

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

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...

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...

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.