Women’s Writing in the British Isles from the Beginnings to the Present
Hannah More
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Standard Name: More, Hannah
Birth Name: Hannah More
Nickname: Nine
Pseudonym: A Young Lady
Pseudonym: The Author of Percy
Pseudonym: H. M.
Pseudonym: Will Chip, a Carpenter
During her long and phenomenally productive career HM
wrote plays, poems, a single novel and much social, religious, and political commentary. She was the leading conservative and Christian moralist of her day. Her political opinions were reactionary, and her passionate commitment to educating the poor and lessening their destitution has been judged as marred by its paternalist tone. But she was a pioneer educator and philanthropist, with enormous influence on the Victorian age.
Orlando gratefully acknowledges help with this document from Mary Waldron. Any flaws or errors are, of course, not hers.
Heyrick, Elizabeth. Familiar Letters Addressed to Children and Young Persons of the Middle Ranks. Darton, Harvey and Darton.
title-page
which means she took the risk and would keep the profit after paying her publisher, Darton, Harvey and Darton
. (A Leicester bookseller was also listed on...
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Ann Yearsley
AY
, apparently in response to and in competition with Hannah More
's poem on the same subject, published A Poem on the Inhumanity of the Slave Trade.
Waldron, Mary. “A Different Kind of Patronage: Ann Yearsley’s Later Friends”. The Age of Johnson, edited by Paul J. Korshin and Jack Lynch, Vol.
13
, AMS Press, pp. 283-35.
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Critical Review. W. Simpkin and R. Marshall.
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Anna Letitia Barbauld
She also kept up her output of political poetry. Only a few years after this Hannah More
's Bishop Bonner's Ghost (a ballad extolling, through irony, the modern, enlightened Church of England
) drew from...
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Ann Taylor Gilbert
Ann Taylor (later ATG
) was invited (as a consequence of her long letter to Josiah Conder
about More
's Coelebs) to review regularly for the evangelical Eclectic Review.
Gilbert, Ann Taylor. Ann Taylor Gilbert’s Album. Editor Stewart, Christina Duff, Garland.
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Gilbert, Ann Taylor. Autobiography and Other Memorials of Mrs. Gilbert. Editor Gilbert, Josiah, H. S. King, http://U of A, HSS Ruth N .
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Sarah Trimmer
From the second number it bore ST
's name. Hannah More
came up with the idea for her Cheap Repository Tracts after two issues of Trimmer's magazine. If it was a model for her, she...
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Anna Letitia Barbauld
The importance of politics in ALB
's journalism is shown by her declining an invitation from Maria Edgeworth
in 1804 to associate herself with a journal written entirely by women, on the grounds that the...
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Elizabeth Heyrick
EH
published another pamphlet on this topic this year, Bull-Baiting: a Village Dialogue Between Tom Brown and John Simms, its title modelled on Hannah More
's Cheap Repository Tracts.
Corfield, Kenneth. “Elizabeth Heyrick: Radical Quaker”. Religion in the Lives of English Women, 1760-1930, edited by Gail Malmgreen, Indiana University Press, pp. 41-67.
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Barbara Hofland
BH
published a pamphlet on the quarrel between George IV
and Queen Caroline, entitled An Englishwoman's Letter to Mrs. Hannah More.
Butts, Dennis. Mistress of our Tears, A Literary and Bibliographical Study of Barbara Hofland. Scolar Press.
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Judith Sargent Murray
About a year after seeing a successful performance of one of Hannah More
's Sacred Dramas, JSM
contributed her first theatre epilogue to an amateur performance at Gloucester in January 1790 of George Farquhar
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Charlotte Nooth
His De la littérature des Nègres in its original form reflects internationalism, anglophilia, and perhaps even proto-feminism. The title-page quotes Mary Robinson
. The roll of honour of white activists for abolition and racial equality...
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Medora Gordon Byron
A Modern Antique (who has been identified with MGB or Miss Byron) responded very promptly to Hannah More
's Coelebs in Search of a Wife, by publishing a novel entitled Celia in Search...
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Dinah Mulock Craik
The Religious Tract Society
published Dinah Mulock
's first book, Michael the Miner, after the tradition of Hannah More
's Cheap Repository Tracts.
Mitchell, Sally. Dinah Mulock Craik. Twayne.
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Jane Marcet
Out of an evident anxiety about unrest on the part of the working classes in the years that led up to the Reform Bill, JM
issued John Hopkins's Notions on Political Economy, published as...
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Mary Matilda Betham
MMB
's collateral descendant Ernest Betham
makes much use in relating her family history of a Memorandum Book, from my Birth, 1776, till July, 1795, which covers some of the functions of both autobiography...
