ABSTRACT
Within this critical model, her father's control over her human ist education has become a primary topic in the relatively few recent discussions of Margaret Roper. On the basis of Thomas More's letters, such as this one of 1521, Roper has become known less for her humanist learning than for the confinement of that learning within the home:
Content with the profit and pleasure of your conscience, in your mod esty you do not seek for the praise of the public, nor value it overmuch
even if you receive it, but because of the great love you bear us, you regard us-your husband and myself-as a sufficiently large circle of readers for all that you write.5
