Writings of a Well-Learned Gentlewoman - Roper, Margaret More
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"At the age of nineteen, Margaret More Roper (1505-1544), eldest daughter and confidante of Sir Thomas More, was the first early modern woman writer in Tudor England and the first nonroyal woman to have a book printed in the English language. This Other Voice edition recognizes her as a notable historical figure and one of the most learned women of her time. It publishes all of Roper's extant writings in a modernized spelling format, including carefully annotated texts, an appendix, a glossary, and current bibliography of studies about her"--

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"At the age of nineteen, Margaret More Roper (1505-1544), eldest daughter and confidante of Sir Thomas More, was the first early modern woman writer in Tudor England and the first nonroyal woman to have a book printed in the English language. This Other Voice edition recognizes her as a notable historical figure and one of the most learned women of her time. It publishes all of Roper's extant writings in a modernized spelling format, including carefully annotated texts, an appendix, a glossary, and current bibliography of studies about her"--
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Margaret More Roper (1505-1544) was the first nonroyal woman to have a book printed in England: Devout Treatise upon the Pater Noster, an English translation of a Latin commentary on the Lord's Prayer by Desiderius Erasmus. 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.