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.
Hannah More
praised the recently-dead ES
in Coelebs in Search of a Wife, setting her in the distinguished company of Elizabeth Carter
for acquirements which would have been distinguished in an University, meekly softened...
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...
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...
Textual Production
Elizabeth Sewell
Like one of its predecessors, Hannah More
's Strictures on the Modern System of Female Education with a view of the Principles and Conduct Prevalent Among Women of Rank and Fortune, this work functions...
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.
Friends, Associates
Anna Seward
AS
visited Hannah More
and her sisters at Cowslip Green near Bristol, although their literary and religious opinions differed widely.
Seward, Anna. The Poetical Works of Anna Seward. Editor Scott, Sir Walter, J. Ballantyne.
39-40
Ashmun, Margaret. The Singing Swan. Yale University Press; H. Milford, Oxford University Press.
194-5
Textual Features
Mary Scott
In the dedication she mentions a few new publications that came to her attention too late to be discussed in the poem itself. These include works by Hester Chapone
, Hannah More
, and Phillis Wheatley
Textual Production
Mary Anne Schimmelpenninck
MAS
published a translation from a French pamphlet by Henri Louis Empaytaz
dating from two years before: Some Particulars relating to the late Emperor Alexander.
Tsar Alexander died in 1825. He had begun as...
Friends, Associates
Mary Anne Schimmelpenninck
She knew other distinguished writers from the previous generation too, and her friends both before and after her marriage included many in the world of literature. A couple of years after this she spent the...
Anthologization
Sarah, Lady Pennington
An Unfortunate Mother's Advice to her Absent Daughters quickly became a staple of composite volumes directed toward young women's conduct. At Edinburgh a volume of this kind, Instructions for a Young Lady, in every sphere...
Textual Features
Elizabeth Singer Rowe
Among the contents and specifically mentioned on the title-page is a translated essay entitled Thoughts on Death which comes from the Moral Essays of the Messieurs du Port Royal—that is, from the Jansenist
movement...
Occupation
Frances Arabella Rowden
FAR
was clearly a key element, perhaps the key element, in the success of the Hans Place school. She taught the general curriculum there for nearly twenty-five years, from its founding until 1818, and she...
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...
Family and Intimate relationships
Radagunda Roberts
RR
's nieces Mary and Margaret, daughters of her brother William, later founded a Female Anti-Slavery Society in Clifton near Bristol. They became close friends of the elderly Hannah More
: it was one of...