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becomes fruitful like a ploughed land on which the seed of good lessons has been sown." And
Margaret More, in particular, is considered to have been one of the most learned women in sixteenth-century England. Thomas More's humanistic ideas about the education of girls did not oppose existing ideas about gender roles, however, as he still felt that women should remain within the private sphere.
149:, a sometime tutor to the family) and Anne Cresacre (1511â1577; Cresacre eventually married Elizabeth's brother John). Elizabeth and her siblings were educated in the humanist tradition by More, their tutor, William Gunnell, and a series of notable intellectuals within Thomas More's orbit such as
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wrote that the three More sisters "were all women of great talents and learning." Thomas More insisted upon giving his daughters the same classical education as his son, an unusual attitude at the time. He wrote that girls were "equally suited for those studies by which reason is cultivated and
230:(1565â1616) had been commissioned to paint one of several copies in 1592. In Lockey's painting we see the embodiment of More's vision of the family as humanistic intellectual hub. Studies by Holbein for the larger portrait still exist, including one of Elizabeth Dauncey.
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William had seven children: John (b.1525), Thomas, Bartholomew, William, Germain, Alice, and Elizabeth. They lived at Canons Park, Middlesex, and in London, then (after 1543) at Cassiobury, Hertfordshire.
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