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.

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Publishing Martha Hale
Subscribers included the Prince of Wales and other royalty, Elizabeth, Margravine of Anspach , Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire , her daughter the Countess of Carlisle , Charles Burney , Warren Hastings , Miss De Camp (later Maria Theresa Kemble)
Publishing Amelia Bristow
A list of about 210 subscribers is given in the volume. They included Hannah More and Jane and Anna Maria Porter . A sixth edition appeared in 1847.
Loeber, Rolf, and Magda Loeber. A Guide to Irish Fiction 1650-1900. Four Courts.
180
Garside, Peter et al., editors. The English Novel 1770-1829. Oxford University Press.
2: 660
The full title is...
Publishing Hannah Kilham
At twelve pages, they sold for a penny, or for seven shillings the hundred (to those who intended to distribute them among the poor, as had been done with Hannah More 's Cheap Repository Tracts).
Dickson, Mora. The Powerful Bond: Hannah Kilham 1774-1832. Dobson.
88
Publishing Anne Francis
A political poem by AF appeared at Norwich in the form of a broadside: A Plain Address to my Neighbours, on the model of Hannah More .
Jackson, James Robert de Jager. Romantic Poetry by Women: A Bibliography, 1770-1835. Clarendon Press.
129
Publishing Margaret Fuller
A review by MF of two recent biographies, one of Hannah More and another of George Crabbe , appeared in the first issue of the Western Messenger. It was her first published piece of literary criticism.
Mehren, Joan von. Minerva and the Muse: A Life of Margaret Fuller. University of Massachusetts Press.
66
Publishing Mary Ann Parker
Her subscribers included many naval and some military personnel, a sprinkling of the nobility, Sir Joseph Banks and (separately) his wife , Frances Boscawen (bluestocking and admiral's widow), Hannah More , and printer-antiquary John Bowyer Nichols
Publishing Sarah Trimmer
It was probably in 1785 that ST published her first set of prints: that is, engraved plates for educational purposes. Her first topic was English history, and the book of prints had a companion volume,...
Publishing Anna Letitia Barbauld
Joseph Johnson did not advertise this work, yet an edition was printed as far away as Dundee. It was popularly priced at sixpence, six months before Hannah More 's Village Politics and nearly three...
Publishing Mary Deverell
MD had apparently finished this poem in draft by 1782.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
It was dedicated to Lord Aldborough . Subscribers included George Crabbe , Richard Graves , Jonas Hanway , Dr Robert Lowth , Hannah More ...
Publishing Ann Yearsley
AY published Poems, on Several Occasions, with the help and patronage of Hannah More , who raised a thousand subscribers for the volume.
Wordsworth, Jonathan. The Bright Work Grows: Women Writers of the Romantic Age. Woodstock Books.
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Publishing Harriet Corp
HC , as the author of An Antidote to the Miseries of Human Life and of other works, printed for the Author her Cœlebs Deceived, whose title and topic were suggested by Hannah More
Reception Marion Reid
Scholar Margaret McFadden notes that this work was tremendously successful, particularly in the United States, where it went through five editions between 1847 and 1852. The 1847 edition and all ensuing versions were printed...
Reception Jane Taylor
Like her sister many years later, she replied robustly to complaint about her overtly Dissenting code of conduct. She reveals a clear sense of the disparity between standards applied to hegemonic beliefs and those applied...
Reception Elizabeth Sophia Tomlins
Reviews of this volume were somewhat lukewarm.
Tomlins, Elizabeth Sophia. “Introduction”. The Victim of Fancy, edited by Daniel Cook, Pickering and Chatto, p. xi - xxxi.
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Hannah More briefly summarizes the story of Quashi in a note to her Slavery: A Poem, 1788 (without mentioning his love for the white Matilda). James G. Basker
Reception Mary Whateley Darwall
In April 1774 (ten years on from her first volume but long before her second) the Monthly Review (in a notice of Hannah More 's The Inflexible Captive) listed MWD as one of the...

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