The Whitbread Award–winning author of Queen of Scots presents a
“brilliantly observed” dual biography of Sir Thomas More and his
daughter (The New York Times). Sir Thomas More’s life is well known:
his opposition to Henry VIII’s marriage to Anne Boleyn, his arrest
for treason, his execution and martyrdom. Yet a major figure in his
life—his beloved daughter Margaret—has been largely airbrushed out
of the story. Margaret was her father’s closest confidant and played
a critical role in safeguarding his intellectual legacy. In A
Daughter’s Love, John Guy restores her to her rightful place in
Tudor history. Always her father’s favorite child, Margaret was such
an accomplished scholar by age eighteen that her work earned praise
from Erasmus of Rotterdam. She remained devoted to her father after
her marriage—and paid the price in estrangement from her husband.
When More was thrown into the Tower of London, Margaret collaborated
with him on his most famous letters from prison, smuggled them out at
great personal risk, and even rescued his head after his execution.
Drawing on original sources that have been ignored by generations of
historians, Guy creates a dramatic new portrait of both Thomas More
and the daughter whose devotion secured his place in history.
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Thomas More & His Dearest Meg
Produktdetaljer
ISBN
9780547488363
Publisert
2016
Utgiver
Vendor
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (ORM)
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Digital bok
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