Friday, August 12, 2011

A Renaissance Education: The School Of Thomas Mores Daughter


Historian Helen Castor chronicles the eventful life of Margaret More, the daughter of Henry VIII’s Lord Chancellor Thomas More. Her passion for acquiring knowledge went against the established ideas of Tudor society, where women were expected to be quiet and obedient – and the principles that shaped her education would go on to have a lasting impact on English cultural life.


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