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...
Literary responses
Margaret Roper
Richard Hyrde
praised MR
's lively rendering of her Latin original. Scholar Elizabeth McCutcheon
reiterates Hyrde's praise, pointing out how justifiably Roper follows the nature of the English language by expanding Erasmus' words (ambitio becomes...
Publishing
Margaret Roper
Erasmus had published his commentary at Basel in Switzerland in 1523. The full title of Roper's translation was A Devout Treatise upon the Pater Noster, made fyrst in latyn by the moost famous doctour mayster...
Timeline
About 1529: The Instruction of a Christian Woman, translated...
Building item
About 1529
The Instruction of a Christian Woman, translated by Richard Hyrde
from Juan Luis Vives
of Valencia in Spain, was published, after the translator's death.
The Origins of Modern Feminism, 1567-1876. Quaritch, 1998.
Catalogue No. 1
Barbour, Paula L., and Bathsua Makin. “Introduction”. An Essay to Revive the Antient Education of Gentlewomen, William Andrews Clark Memorial Library, University of California, 1980, p. iii - xi.
v
Noreña, Carlos G. Juan Luis Vives. Nijhoff, 1970.
304, 307
English Short Title Catalogue. http://estc.bl.uk/.
University of Alberta Libraries On-line Catalogue. http://www.library.ualberta.ca/.