A poem by Margaret More Roper?

Ross explores the ascription of a poem to Margaret More Roper in an early eighteenth-century manuscript. The ascription occurs in an early eighteenth-century miscellany of devotional papers in the hand of Elizabeth Bruce Boswell, the grandmother of Samuel Johnson's biographer James Boswell. While recent discussion of Roper has looked to deprioritize individual authorship, the attribution of a poem to her in Boswell's early eighteenth-century manuscript reopens the tantalizing search for her writing which is known to be missing. The poem in Boswell's manuscript may be one piece in the puzzle of Margaret More Roper's missing works.