Most popular articles on this website include
Life & Family
- Ellen Mary Rope, Marga’s aunt: sculptor and New Woman
- Margaret Edith (Aldrich) Rope – the other Margaret Rope
- The Reverend Father Henry Rope: Marga’s brother, scholar & poet
- Irene Rope – the sister who went to war
- Did Margaret’s grandfather Edward oppose her Catholicism?
- The Ropes of Suffolk
- Moriarty of Shrewsbury – Margaret’s mentor and patron
- Clues about Marga’s ‘best friend’ Peg Poore
- Family & Friends – buried in Shrewsbury Cemetery
- Sister Margaret’s final resting place – Quidenham
- A radical artist – from a conservative background
- The Oxton Virgin Mary – a “fearless young woman”
- Early mentions of “Miss Margaret Rope” in 1905
- A workshop-tool belonging to Marga gives a link to the past
- Christmas in the Rope family household
- Marga’s restoration work at Shrewsbury Museum
MA Rope’s Art-Works
- The symbolic meanings of Marga’s colours
- The Heckmondwike windows and their GK Chesterton connection
- The Blaxhall Church windows
- Portraying the Martyrs, in Oxton – the value of research
- Colour in Marga’s stained glass – especially orange
- The mystery of the secret curate in Shrewsbury Cathedral
- The Soldier Window in Shrewsbury Cathedral
- Margaret Rope’s war memorial windows
- Judith & Holofernes found in a bathroom
- Judith & Holofernes installed in Shrewsbury Museum
- Marga’s “ferocious self-caricatures”
- Monsignor John Hawes – the Australian connection
- Marga’s windows in Geraldton Cathedral, Australia
- Whether to sign windows – or not
- Margaret Rope’s annoying chin
- ‘Welle Of Love’ and ‘Goblin Market’ bought by museums (2014)
- Marga and Christina Rossetti – the story of Goblin Market
- St John Fisher and the Severed Head
- The mysterious knight at Hoylake
- Margaret’s Saint Margaret
MA Rope in Art-History
- ‘Arts and Crafts Stained Glass’ – book by Peter Cormack (2015)
- Publication of a new photo-book of Margaret Rope’s work
- Roger Hall’s Guide To Shrewsbury Cathedral’s Windows is back in print
- Catholicism: artists & converts in the 1890s
- How ‘Arts & Crafts’ was Margaret Rope?
- The Woman Question – women in stained-glass 1890-1930
- The re-interpretation of Shrewsbury’s ‘Congress Window’
- “Female artists are neglected by art-history and museums”
Arts & Crafts Movement
- Karl Parsons – contemporary and colleague
- Shropshire church stained-glass by a Marga contemporary, Mary Newill
- Henry Payne, artist and Marga’s professor
- Review of Women Arts & Crafts Art Workers by Zoe Thomas
Shropshire
- Shrewsbury Cathedral – omitted from the town map!
- The Orchard Cafe at Shrewsbury Cathedral
- Renovations at Shrewsbury Cathedral (2017)
- Scenes of Shropshire & Shrewsbury in glass
- The visitor-friendly Cathedral West Windows
- The Nativity Altar-Front at Shrewsbury St Mary’s
- Poetry inspired by Margaret Rope’s works
- Ellen Mary Rope’s Triptych – and How It Was Saved
- Finding Marga’s Shrewsbury studios
- Georgie Gaskin: Shrewsbury’s other Arts & Crafts great
- The St Nicholas window at Newport RC Church
- The golden balls of the St Nicholas window in Newport
- King Henry V – and Saint Winifrede
- Saint Winefride, Shrewsbury and Margaret Rope
- The Nativity Altar-Front at Shrewsbury St Mary’s
- Why does the definitive work – ‘Churches Of Shropshire’ – ignore Marga?
- Shropshire’s greatest artists
- Strachan’s Arts & Crafts treasure – in a small Shropshire village
New Profile
- The Margaret Rope Retrospective Exhibition
- The Margaret Rope Retrospective Exhibition – on film
- Review of The 2016 Margaret Rope Exhibition at Shrewsbury Museum
- A major light show celebrates Margaret Rope
- Christmas cards of Margaret Rope designs for sale
- New photo-book, of works by both Margaret Ropes, published
The ‘Woman Question’
- Ellen Mary Rope, Marga’s aunt: sculptor and New Woman
- The Woman Question – women in stained-glass 1890-1930
- The Oxton Virgin Mary – a “fearless young woman”
- Judith & Holofernes – The Power Of Woman
- Review of Women Arts & Crafts Art Workers by Zoe Thomas
Misc…
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