1st Edition
Early Tudor Translators: Margaret Beaufort, Margaret More Roper and Mary Basset Printed Writings 1500–1640: Series I, Part Two, Volume 4
By Lee Cullen Khanna
Copyright 2001
464 Pages
by
Routledge
464 Pages
by
Routledge
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This volume presents the texts of three Englishwomen remarkable both for writing and publishing their work during the first half of the sixteenth century. They also proved themselves nimble survivors of political and religious turmoil, Beaufort suffering for her Lancastrian connections and Roper and Basset for their Catholic allegiance. Significantly, these women turned to translation and to... Read more
Contents: Introductory Note; [Thomas à Kempis] A full deuoute and gostley Treatyse of the Imytacion and followynge the blessed Lyfe of our most merciful Savyour cryst; William Atkinson, translator of Books I-III, form the 1515 [?] Wynkyn de Worde Edition (STC 23956); Margaret Beaufort, translator of 'The Forthe boke', from the 1517 Pynson edition (STC 23957); Margaret Beaufort, [Author uncertain] The mirroure of golde for the synfull soule; Margaret More Roper, [Desiderius Erasmus] A deuout treatise upon the Pater noster; Mary Roper Clarke Basset, [Sir Thomas More] Of the sorowe ... of Christ before hys taking.
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Lee Cullen Khanna
