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.
Photograph of a painting of Hannah More by Henry William Pickersgill, 1822. She is seated on a red-upholstered chair beside a little table draped in red fabric and bearing a quill pen, inkwell, and piece of paper. She wears a blue-green mantle with V neck and creamy fabric at the cuffs and neckline, finished with a ruff around her neck. She has a gold shawl and a cap topped with pale blue ribbons. More wrote that she was "condemned, sorely against her will," to sit for this portrait. The version here, in th
Print of Barley Wood, Hannah More's home for almost thirty years. The print's grey tones depict a wooded countryside with some of Barley Wood's twenty acres. One of two female figures in the mid-ground is pointing towards the house.

Connections

Connections Author name Excerpt
Intertextuality and Influence Charlotte Yonge
These latter works are reminiscent of Questions and Answers for the Mendip Sunday Schools, 1795, by Hannah More (whose biography CY was later to write).
Intertextuality and Influence Charlotte Montefiore
Working on the model of the Christian tract series for the poor, dating back to Hannah More 's Cheap Repository Tracts, CM aimed these stories at members of the Jewish working class. The first...
Intertextuality and Influence Harriette Wilson
The book itself opens with an image presenting HW 's writing as showmanship: Lions and Tigers just arrived for the coronation. Walk in ladies and gentlemen. . . . Only six francs, to see all...
Intertextuality and Influence Anna Letitia Barbauld
Taken together, ALB 's various writings for children during her career as educator at Palgrave School exerted enormous influence on other children's writers, such as Maria Edgeworth , Sarah Trimmer , Hannah More , and...
Intertextuality and Influence Charlotte Yonge
Her vindication of unmarried women drawing intellectual and social authority from their relationship with the Church of England brings to mind Mary Astell . She appears to have learned from women writers like Sarah Trimmer
Intertextuality and Influence Elizabeth Pipe Wolferstan
A few statements are footnoted to their originators, whom EPW has either paraphrased or versified: Sherlock and Lavater are her favourites, but she also draws on lighter writers like Horace , Swift , and Coleridge
Intertextuality and Influence Emma Parker
EP says she has studied to avoid a dictatorial tone . . . considering herself rather as one of those [women] she is addressing.
Parker, Emma. Important Trifles. T. Egerton.
prelims
Feminist Companion Archive.
She writes as a strong-minded Christian, and makes use of...
Intertextuality and Influence Stéphanie-Félicité de Genlis
Mary Wollstonecraft , though she saw many virtues in this book, was not happy that Adelaide was educated to be obedient, not independent-minded: that with all her accomplishments she was ready to marry any body...
Intertextuality and Influence Mary Sewell
MS follows in the tradition of Hannah More 's Cheap Repository Tracts, and is perhaps also indebted to Mary Leadbeater 's Cottage Dialogues among the Irish Peasantry. Maria Edgeworth 's writing for children was also a significant influence.
Intertextuality and Influence Mary Martha Sherwood
She wrote this story after a bitter winter that had caused the poor much hardship, and within two years of her meeting with Hannah More , then perhaps, at the highest pinnacle of her fame...
Intertextuality and Influence Joanna Southcott
To most readers her torrential prose tracts
Blain, Virginia et al., editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford.
are long, rambling, obscure, with mis-spellings and grammatical mistakes.
Hopkins, James K. A Woman To Deliver her People: Joanna Southcott and English Millenarianism in an Era of Revolution. University of Texas Press.
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She said she had rejected literary skill as a bribe of the devil. She also (not unlike...
Intertextuality and Influence Frances Brooke
This novel became notorious for its hostile portrait of Garrick . It also complains of the lack of outlets for new plays, attacks Town and Country Magazine for its Tete-a-Tete feature of gossip or scandal...
Intertextuality and Influence Ann Radcliffe
Influences on AR 's writings include the opera, contemporary travel writers, and Joseph Priestley 's Course of Lectures on Oratory and Criticism, 1777.
Norton, Rictor. Mistress of Udolpho: The Life of Ann Radcliffe. Leicester University Press.
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AR probably helped to produce the fashion for literary quotation...
Intertextuality and Influence Elizabeth Barrett Browning
The authorial voice is forthright about the poet's own desire to be a literary trail-blazer for womankind, and she is already defining that task in terms of rejection of the domestic. She also has a...
Intertextuality and Influence Harriet Corp
The title-page of Talents Improved quotes poetry by Hannah More on the subject of charity. HC 's preface (which reveals her sex) says her narrative is secondary to instruction, but that she has taken pains...

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