...although he believed that boys and girls were entitled to equal education, More thought it wrong for women to publish books or to make any show of their learning. So when Margaret, brought up to excel and encouraged by a good tutor, expressed a hope that she might one day publish something, her father warned her off.
Pro-capitalist churchmen have dismissed the moneyless communism of the Utopia as just another of More’s witticisms, and attempted to prove that his slashing criticisms of sixteenth-century society were motivated by a scholastic defense of monasticism. Socialists, on the other hand, have dismissed his attempt to construct a society in which covetousness, pride, sloth and anger were inhibited to the greatest degree compatible with an organic social flexibility. To them such ideas have been just the reflection of the poverty of the pre-capitalist mode of production.
A Catholic father, review of A Daughter’s Love: Thomas and Margaret More, by John Guy, Economist, July 17, 2008
Thomas More for Our Season, by Robert H. Bork, First Things June/July 1999
The Story of Thomas More, by John Farrow
The Life of Sir Thomas More, by William Roper
Center for Thomas More Studies
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