Writings of a Well-Learned Gentlewoman: The Other Voice in Early Modern Europe: The Toronto Series, cartea 109

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INTRODUCTION

A DEVOUT TREATISE UPON THE PATER NOSTER
Preface, by Richard Hyrde
The First Petition
The Second Petition
The Third Petition
The Fourth Petition
The Fifth Petition
The Sixth Petition
The Seventh Petition

LETTERS
1. From Desiderius Erasmus, September 6, 1529
2. To Desiderius Erasmus, November 4, 1529
3. To Thomas More, May? 1534
4. Alice Alington to Margaret Roper, August 17, 1534
5. Margaret Roper to Alice Alington, 1534
6. To Thomas More, 1534
7. Excerpts from an Otherwise Lost Letter to Thomas More, 1534 or 1535

APPENDIX: POEM ATTRIBUTED TO MARGARET ROPER

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"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."