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Writings of a Well-Learned Gentlewoman (The Other Voice in Early Modern Europe: The Toronto Series #109)

Writings of a Well-Learned Gentlewoman (The Other Voice in Early Modern Europe: The Toronto Series #109)

Elizabeth McCutcheon (Editor), Jaime Goodrich (Editor), William Gentrup (Editor), Margaret More Roper
$52.74
Publication Date: December 5th, 2024
Publisher:
Iter Press
ISBN:
9781649591227
Pages:
152
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Description

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.
 

About the Author

Elizabeth McCutcheon is professor emeritus at the University of Hawai’i and is the foremost authority on Margaret Roper. Recipient of a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Center for Thomas More Studies, she has published numerous articles on Roper. This series edition is the culmination of her outstanding scholarly contributions to Roper studies.

Jaime Goodrich is professor of English and director of the Humanities Center at Wayne State University and has published widely on early modern women writers, particularly in relation to Catholicism and humanism.

William Gentrup is professor emeritus at Arizona State University and is the editor or coeditor of three scholarly collections on Renaissance subjects, including, with Elizabeth McCutcheon, A Companion to Margaret More Roper Studies: Life Records, Essential Texts, and Critical Essays.

Praise for Writings of a Well-Learned Gentlewoman (The Other Voice in Early Modern Europe: The Toronto Series #109)

"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

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