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Celebrating Margaret Rope - stained glass-artist 
Thank-you for highlighting this lady’s work. I too heard about this on Woman’s Hour!
It’s a crying shame that this has been ignored and passed over for too long! Had a quick search online and found some more info about the Ropes, here:
http://www.purplepoets.com/crypt.html
Also, try the local Records Office; the Shropshire Archives in the Shirehall.
Particularly if the Ropes are a Catholic family then the Catholic Archives may prove useful, or maybe Catholic diocesan records: http://catholicarchivesociety.org/
All the best with research …
Serena
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Does anyone have any information about “The Welle of Love” window, currently in the Los Angeles Art Museum ? Said to have been based on the Chaucer poem of the same name
Thanks in advance for any assistance with this enquiry.
gary brayne
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It’s in Los Angeles County Museum, bought by them, via Christie’s, in June 2014.
Hammer price: £20,000. With buyer’s premium and VAT: £27,500.
The “Welle of Love” is mentioned in Chaucer’s “Romaunt de la Rose“, a translation and adaptation from French
Sean Hare
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Congratulations on this wonderful endeavor!
As a scholar whose work focuses on Medieval English nuns who are continually marginalized and forgotten, I can’t tell you how much I appreciate your efforts.
Best,
Marilyn Oliva
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Do you know anything about a painting of St Francis – which might be by one of the Rope family -, which was done on the outside wall of a shed in the woods at Kesgrave, Suffolk please?
I am not sure if it is still there but I saw it several years ago.
Viola Reade
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