Mary Basset
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Mary Basset was a translator of works into the English language. Basset is cited as the only woman during the reign of Mary I to have her work appear in print.
Mary Basset's dedicatory epistle to Mary I in her translation of Eusebius's Ecclesiastical History
Margaret Roper
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Margaret Roper was an English writer and translator. Roper, the eldest daughter of Sir Thomas More, is considered to have been one of the most learned women in sixteenth-century England. She is celebr
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…of works into the English language. Basset is cited as the only woman during the reign of Mary I to have her work appear in print. As the daughter of Margaret Roper and William Roper and the granddaughter of Sir Thomas More, she had an outstanding education; her tutors included John Christopherson. She married first…
Portrait of Margaret Roper, from a 1593 reproduction of a now-lost Hans Holbein portrait of all the women of Thomas More's family.
Sir William Roper
Miniatures of William and Margaret Roper by Hans Holbein the Younger
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