Margaret More, together with her siblings and Margaret Giggs
, made up a whole School
qtd. in
Blain, Virginia et al., editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford, 1990.
taught in the More family home. They received an education which was exceptional in any case and even more so...
Family and Intimate relationships
Margaret Roper
At about the time of Thomas More's second marriage the household expanded again to take in Margaret Giggs
.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
His treason consisted in refusing, for reasons of religious doctrine, to accept the style which Henry VIII
had given himself, of supreme head of the Church of England
. His courage at the scaffold extended...
Leisure and Society
Margaret Roper
In 1527 or early 1528 MR
was painted by Hans Holbein the Younger
, in a group portrait of all of Thomas More's household. From the painting Holbein made a drawing (not now extant) and...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text
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...