Women’s Writing in the British Isles from the Beginnings to the Present
Sir Thomas Elyot
Standard Name: Elyot, Sir Thomas
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1531: Sir Thomas Elyot published The Boke of the...
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1531
Sir Thomas Elyot
published The Boke of the Governor, a classic Tudor treatise on education.
Powell, Ken, and Chris Cook. English Historical Facts: 1485-1603. Macmillan, 1977.
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Probably 1540: Sir Thomas Elyot's The Defence of Good Women...
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Probably 1540
Sir Thomas Elyot
's The Defence of Good Women was published. Its date has provoked disagreement, but 1540 is now generally preferred to 1545.
British Library Catalogue. http://explore.bl.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?dscnt=0&tab=local_tab&dstmp=1489778087340&vid=BLVU1&mode=Basic&fromLo.
Cox, Michael, editor. The Oxford Chronology of English Literature. Oxford University Press, 2002, 2 vols.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
