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
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...
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...
Friends, Associates Anna Letitia Barbauld
ALB met Hannah More , and they began a correspondence. The year after this More visited the Barbaulds at Palgrave.
McCarthy, William et al. “Introduction”. The Poems of Anna Letitia Barbauld, University of Georgia Press, p. xxi - xlvi.
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Rodgers, Betsy. Georgian Chronicle: Mrs Barbauld and her Family. Methuen.
81
McCarthy, William. Anna Letitia Barbauld, Voice of the Enlightenment. The Johns Hopkins University Press.
226
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...
Friends, Associates Charlotte Elizabeth Tonna
During her time at Bristol, she met the elderly Hannah More , who encouraged her in her teaching project. Her interest in factory reform later brought her into contact with Lord Shaftesbury .
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.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Friends, Associates Elizabeth Montagu
EM supported her friend Hannah More in organizing subscriptions for Ann Yearsley 's Poems, on Several Occasions.
Myers, Sylvia Harcstark. The Bluestocking Circle: Women, Friendship, and the Life of the Mind in Eighteenth-Century England. Clarendon.
261
Friends, Associates Mary Deverell
The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography notes both that MD received patronage from Bristol heiress Ann Lovell Gwatkin , and that Hannah More emphatically did not take to her, though their paths must repeatedly have...
Friends, Associates Elizabeth Montagu
Hannah More 's biographer M. G. Jones dated the heyday of the Bluestocking salons as 1770-85, but EM had been holding salons for twenty years before this.
Jones, Mary Gwladys. Hannah More. Cambridge University Press.
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The Bluestocking Circle, 1990, by Sylvia Harcstark Myers
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
Friends, Associates Sarah Trimmer
She corresponded with Jane West , Elizabeth Carter , and Hannah More .
Todd, Janet, editor. Dictionary of British Women Writers. Routledge.
under West
Balfour, Clara. A Sketch of Mrs. Trimmer. W. and F. G. Cash.
Friends, Associates Elizabeth Montagu
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...
Friends, Associates Mary Hays
In later life she was friendly with Penelope Pennington (with whom she stayed at Bristol) and Hester Piozzi , Anna Seward , and Hannah More , whom she met there.
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...

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