Writings of a Well-Learned Gentlewoman
Margaret More Roper author Jaime Goodrich editor Elizabeth McCutcheon editor William Gentrup editor
Format:Paperback
Publisher:Iter Press
Publishing:24th Sep '24
£36.00
This title is due to be published on 24th September, and will be despatched as soon as possible.
The collected writings of Margaret More Roper, presented and annotated for classroom use.
Margaret More Roper (1505–44) was, at the age of nineteen, the first early modern woman writer in Tudor England and the first nonroyal woman to have a book printed in the English language. As the eldest daughter of Sir Thomas More, Roper received a cutting-edge education in Latin and Greek that was virtually unprecedented for a woman. Besides gaining an international reputation for her outstanding erudition, Roper served as More’s confidante during his imprisonment. Her correspondence from this period offers valuable insight into a key moment in English history.
This Other Voice series edition recognizes Margaret More Roper as a notable historical figure in her own right and as one of the most learned women of her time. It publishes all her extant writings in modernized spelling, with annotations, a glossary, and a current bibliography of studies about her.
"Writings of a Well-Learned Gentlewoman presents for the first time all of Margaret Roper’s known writings, together with supplementary texts by Erasmus, Hyrde, and Alington that set the writings in context. With glosses, annotations, and new translations of Latin texts the editors bring fresh light to bear on Roper’s work. In doing so, they confirm the shift from a hagiographical emphasis on her as dutiful and devoted daughter to an appraisal of her achievements as scholar and translator. From a wider perspective, they offer an objective picture of what it meant to have been a “well-learned gentlewoman” in early Tudor England, and what it has meant since to have become an iconic figure within and beyond its shores." * Brenda M. Hosington, Université de Montréal and University of Warwick *
ISBN: 9781649591227
Dimensions: 229mm x 152mm x 10mm
Weight: 200g
154 pages