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.
The leading figures in the movement were Montagu herself (who spent freely in hospitality, and who was later dubbed the Queen of the Bluestockings or Queen of the Blues) and Carter
(the most intellectually...
Friends, Associates
Mary Martha Sherwood
MMS
judged Anna Seward
to be greedy for flattery, especially from the opposite sex. In 1799 she met Hannah More
, who was then at the height of her fame and to whom admittance was...
Hays, Mary. “Chronology and Introduction”. The Correspondence (1779-1843) of Mary Hays, British Novelist, edited by Marilyn Brooks, Edwin Mellen, pp. xv - xx; 1.
xvii
Friends, Associates
Sophia Lee
Those present included Hester Lynch Piozzi
, Hannah More
and her sisters, Sarah Siddons
, and others. The great point at issue was the gender of the anonymous author.
Friends, Associates
Frances Brooke
Hannah More
and Anna Seward
were among the invited guests. The anecdotalist Baptist Noel Turner
later related from FB
's own mouth a story of Johnson asking her to withdraw from the others so that...
Friends, Associates
Jane Porter
The Porters' mother lived a busy social life on limited means, and JP
kept up this tradition. Sir Walter Scott
was an early friend.
Mudge, Bradford Keyes, editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 116. Gale Research.
265
When she moved to London, JP
included among her friends...
Health
Anne Steele
Earlier accounts of AS
mention that she was left lame for life by a fall from a horse in her teens (although she must have recovered enough to be capable of walking up Danebury Hill...
Instructor
Mary Robinson
At a tender age she attended, as a boarder, the school run by Hannah More
and her sisters. Several of her schoolfellows (among them Alicia Tyndal Palmer
) were daughters of theatre people. The girls...
Intertextuality and Influence
Harriet Corp
The introduction presents an old gentleman whose impatience with religious novels is being patiently reasoned away by his grandson with a reminder that the category includes Bunyan
. An elderly bachelor, a reviewer, a boarding-school...
Intertextuality and Influence
Judith Sargent Murray
She backs this pleasure in modernity with a remarkable grasp of former female history and of the women's literary tradition in English and its contexts. She mentions the Greek foremother Sappho
, the patriotic heroism...
Intertextuality and Influence
Anna Maria Mackenzie
Meanwhile the heroine, Maria Stanley, is unjustly spurned by her husband because he believes the lying insinuations of a jealous and wicked woman whom he has rejected, but the truth is revealed in time for...
Intertextuality and Influence
Susanna Blamire
This ballad resembles in theme and technique those among Hannah More
's Cheap Repository Tracts (which it pre-dates by several years). Here Ned—who looks forward, on the strength of Reets o' Man, to taking a...
Intertextuality and Influence
Eliza Fay
Her range of reference runs from Pope
on the one hand to, on the other, Ann Radcliffe
and an anonymous answerer of Hannah More
, the author of Nubilia in Search of a Husband.
Forster, E. M., and Eliza Fay. “Introductory Note”. Original Letters from India, Hogarth Press, pp. 7-24.
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Intertextuality and Influence
Margaret Oliphant
This novel is narrated in a consistently controlled sardonic tone.
Jay, Elisabeth. Mrs Oliphant: "A Fiction to Herself": A Literary Life. Clarendon Press.
5
Lucilla Marjoribanks keeps house for her father, and employs on Carlingford society the skills she has learned in studying political economy at school. She...
Intertextuality and Influence
Mary Ann Kelty
The book bears in various details the influence of Jane Austen
, though its overall project of pious didacticism is at odds with Austen's approach. The title-page quotes Rousseau
on the topic of the sensitive...