More, Agnes (1591–1656)
More, Agnes (1591–1656)
British translator. Name variations: Dame Agnes More or Moor. Born 1591, possibly in Bampton Co., Oxon, England; died Mar 14, 1656, in Cambrai, Flanders; dau. of John More of Bampton Co., Oxon; great-great-granddau. of Sir Thomas More; cousin of John Donne and Gertrude More.
Entered recusant English Benedictine Abbey of Our lady of Consolation at Cambrai in Flanders (1623); trans. work of mystical theology of Jeanne de Cambry as The Building of Divine Love As Translated by Dame Agnes More, Transcribed from the 17th Century Manuscript.
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