Romuald I. Lakowski
has argued that MR
(and not her father
) was the author of a poem (two quatrains and a couplet) inscribed in the copy of Treatise concernynge the fruytfull saynges of David...
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Elizabeth Shirley
Margaret Clement
, 1540-1612, was the adoptive grand-daughter of Sir Thomas More
, a Catholic heroine and an exemplary nun. Her biographer calls her our good grandmother and a firebrand to inkendell me in the...
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Ruth Rendell
RR
published Murder Being Once Done, a novel dealing with fears of illness and death. Its title is quoted from Sir Thomas More
's Utopia.
British Books in Print. J. Whitaker and Sons, 1874–1987.
1973
Benstock, Bernard, and Thomas F. Staley, editors. Dictionary of Literary Biography 87. Gale Research, 1989.
312
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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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Margaret Roper
Either MR
, or her father
, or both in concert, wrote to her stepsister Lady Alington
, informing her of their debates about the danger More was incurring for the sake of his conscience.
McCutcheon, Elizabeth. “Margaret More Roper: The Learned Woman in Tudor England”. Women Writers of the Renaissance and Reformation, edited by Katharina M. Wilson, University of Georgia Press, 1987, pp. 449-80.
472-5, 477
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Anne Manning
In AM
's novel The Household of Sir Thomas More, as in Mary Powell, a woman (Margaret More, later Roper
) ostensibly writes of a famous man: the ascription of authorship on...