[3][2] Her childhood studies, alongside More's daughter Margaret, included "law, history, philosophy, and theology."

Her links to More continued into adulthood, and she was present at meetings at his home in which intellectuals discussed humanist theology.

[3] No oil paintings of these portraits survive; however, the original drawings are held by the Royal Collection Trust.

[4][5] Although it is unknown how it came into her possession, she owned the Yale Law School Manuscript of the Nova Statuta Angliae, and despite its value, she did not sell it.

[2] Thomas Elyot died in approximately 1545, and Margaret would go on to marry, as her second husband, Sir James Dyer in April 1551.