Educated women were not always a welcome sight in the eyes of the reformers. Desiderius Erasmus wrote a scathing critique of education for women, arguing that women were made for sexual pleasure and not for debating Greek and Latin classics. His concerns were directed against Margaret Roper, the well-educated daughter of Thomas More. When her father was executed, Margaret bribed the man who was about to throw her father’s head in the river, took it home and preserved it by pickling it in spices. Interestingly, Roper was the first non-royal woman to publish a book she had translated into English, a treatise by Erasmus himself.