"Writings of a Well-Learned Gentlewoman presents for the first time all of Margaret Roper’s known writings, together with supplementary texts by Erasmus, Hyrde, and Alington that set the writings in context. With glosses, annotations, and new translations of Latin texts the editors bring fresh light to bear on Roper’s work. In doing so, they confirm the shift from a hagiographical emphasis on her as dutiful and devoted daughter to an appraisal of her achievements as scholar and translator. From a wider perspective, they offer an objective picture of what it meant to have been a “well-learned gentlewoman” in early Tudor England, and what it has meant since to have become an iconic figure within and beyond its shores."
— Brenda M. Hosington, Université de Montréal and University of Warwick