Gertrude More: A Life
- 1606 Born Helen, to Cresacre and Elizabeth More
- Yes, great-great-granddaughter to that Sir Thomas More!
- Familial tradition of educating women to a high standard
- 1623 At seventeen, travels to France to start Cambrai convent
- Temperamentally unsuited for monastic life and Ignatian prayer
- 1624 Augustine Baker arrives at Cambrai as spiritual guide for nuns
- 1625 More takes final vows, becoming Dame Gertrude
- 1632 Conflict arises between Baker and Francis Hull, convent’s official confessor
- More backs Baker, writing poetry and prose in support of his methods
- 1633 More dies of smallpox at the age of twenty-seven
