Rating: 5 out of 5 stars

The eldest daughter of Sir Thomas More, Margaret More Roper was a well-educated, devout, and accomplished woman who defied expectations in Tudor England. This biography offers insight into the tumultuous era of the Reformation and the court of King Henry VIII, while recognizing Margaret’s own significant contributions as a writer, translator, and inspiration to her generation.

This is an interesting and easy-to-read story of the life of Margaret More Roper and the More family. It gives a unique perspective on the Tudor era.

NetGalley, Andrea Romance

Rating: 5 out of 5 stars

Margaret More Roper is a true inspiration and the very core of women's fight for equality. If you have a passion for egalitarianism, equality between genders and history, this is the truly inspiring book for you. Outstanding

NetGalley, Ink Reads

Overall, I found this was a well-written debut biography about Margaret More Roper. It was a fascinating read to learn about Margaret’s life and the More family with a heavy focus on the academic life in 16th century England. If you would like to read a book about a strong academic woman from Tudor England, I suggest you read, “The Tudor Scholar and Writer: The Life and Times of Margaret More Roper” by Aimee Fleming.

NetGalley, Heidi Malagisi

This was an enjoyable and well-researched biography of Margaret Roper, who was lucky enough to have an enlightened father who believed that girls should receive a good education and gave her a good start. She was so bright, though, that she is still famous for her writings and her learning.

I also found the description of the huge affection that she and her father shared very touching. Margaret Roper always strikes me as being perfectly portrayed by Sussanah York in A Man for All Seasons, a lovely clever young woman who showed great concern for her father in the King’s Great Matter and tried her best to help him. This book made me want to read as much as possible about this intriguing young woman.

NetGalley, Lisa Sanderson

Rating: 5 out of 5 stars

This book, by Aimee Fleming, is a lens into the life of Sir Thomas More's eldest daughter, Margaret. It is clear that More regarded his daughter quite highly, as Fleming frequently points out the closeness of their familial relationship, even to the detriment of Margaret's marriage at times. Though a slight book, it does well to bring to life the times that the Mores lived in, and the depth of feelings that the family had for each other. The way in which Fleming describes Margaret pushing through the crowd to give her father one last embrace before he's locked up until his execution was so evocative that it brought tears to my eyes.

I enjoyed every minute reading this book.

NetGalley, Stephanie Gates

Margaret Roper was an educated woman with her own talents and achievements, not just her father's daughter.
The rich and descriptive narrative takes you back to sixteenth century England in this well woven book, full of information and atmosphere. I found it a compelling and extremely interesting to read.

NetGalley, LOIS ELIYAHU

Rating: 5 out of 5 stars

In this fascinating biography, Fleming brings Margaret More Roper to life. Daughter of renowned scholar Sir Thomas More, Margaret is the entire focus of this book as a scholar, writer, and translator from the Tudor period and the English Reformation. Following her life from her childhood and education under her father to her married life as a great mind in her own right, Spillman’s book provides insight into women’s lives and education in sixteenth-century England. Readers also witness the split from the Catholic Church from the English Catholic’s side of things and understand how Tudor society functioned for women with educations. As one of many educated women from the period, Margaret More Roper’s life highlights the role that religion played in daily life and in academics. This book and its insights into her life allows readers to place her in conversation with her academic contemporaries and with contemporary women to create a more complete picture of women’s lives as individuals, aristocrats, and scholars. A must-read for Tudor fans and Tudor, English, and women’s historians alike, this book is approachable, comprehensive, and incredibly engaging, and readers are sure to enjoy these insights into Margaret More Roper’s relatively forgotten life as a luminary of the Tudor period.

NetGalley, Lily Amidon

Rating: 5 out of 5 stars

Wow!! This was a really interesting book, I had never heard of her and found her life and times a very interesting and entertaining read!

NetGalley, Heather Bennett

Rating: 5 out of 5 stars

This is a layman accessible and interesting monograph on the life and works of Margaret More Roper. As a women of the period, she is nearly always considered a footnote in her father's biographies, but here the author has written a balanced and well reasoned consideration of her in historical context in her own right as a primary subject and not just an aside.

The book is written with chapters in more or less chronological order: early life, the More household, education & adolescence, marriage & writing, motherhood, Humanism & reputation, reputation, loyalty, mortality (the imprisonment & death of her father), and their/her legacy. The book is meticulously annotated throughout and the chapter notes and bibliography will provide readers with many (many!) hours of further reading.

Five stars. It's both a well written and researched study of the More family and allies (and enemies), but also a well rounded study of Humanism, intellectualism, and the possibilities afforded women from the highest classes of the period.

NetGalley, Annie Buchanan