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

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Textual Production Jane Marcet
Out of an evident anxiety about unrest on the part of the working classes in the years that led up to the Reform Bill, JM issued John Hopkins's Notions on Political Economy, published as...
Textual Production Emma Marshall
An idea for a fiction about Hannah More 's time at Cheddar
qtd. in
Marshall, Beatrice. Emma Marshall. Seeley, 1900.
206
gave rise (after EM 's publisher had advised leaving More out of it) to Under the Mendips, A Tale, which...
Textual Production Anna Letitia Barbauld
She also kept up her output of political poetry. Only a few years after this Hannah More 's Bishop Bonner's Ghost (a ballad extolling, through irony, the modern, enlightened Church of England ) drew from...
Textual Production Anna Letitia Barbauld
The importance of politics in ALB 's journalism is shown by her declining an invitation from Maria Edgeworth in 1804 to associate herself with a journal written entirely by women, on the grounds that the...
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...
Textual Production Ann Yearsley
AY , apparently in response to and in competition with Hannah More 's poem on the same subject, published A Poem on the Inhumanity of the Slave Trade.
Waldron, Mary. “A Different Kind of Patronage: Ann Yearsley’s Later Friends”. The Age of Johnson, edited by Paul J. Korshin and Jack Lynch, Vol.
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, AMS Press, 2002, pp. 283-35.
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Critical Review. W. Simpkin and R. Marshall, 5 series.
65 (1788): 314
Textual Production Dinah Mulock Craik
The Religious Tract Society published Dinah Mulock 's first book, Michael the Miner, after the tradition of Hannah More 's Cheap Repository Tracts.
Mitchell, Sally. Dinah Mulock Craik. Twayne, 1983.
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Textual Production Anne Steele
AS exchanged occasional poems over the span of her life with other women in her circle of correspondents: primarily her sister Mary Steele, later Wakeford , whom she called Amira, but also her niece...
Textual Production Mary Matilda Betham
MMB 's collateral descendant Ernest Betham makes much use in relating her family history of a Memorandum Book, from my Birth, 1776, till July, 1795, which covers some of the functions of both autobiography...
Textual Production Amelia Opie
AO was an indefatigable letter-writer. Her surviving correspondence at the Huntington Library includes 331 letters (1794-1850). Most are written by her to her cousin Eliza (Alderson) Briggs or her husband; a few are from her...
Textual Production Medora Gordon Byron
A Modern Antique (who has been identified with MGB or Miss Byron) responded very promptly to Hannah More 's Coelebs in Search of a Wife, by publishing a novel entitled Celia in Search...
Textual Production Ann Batten Cristall
The publisher Joseph Johnson issued by subscription ABC 's Poetical Sketches: an important text in women's Romanticism.
Her title was the same as that of William Blake 's first publication, 1783. Critic Richard C. Sha
Textual Production Henrietta Maria Bowdler
HMB 's letters to Sarah Ponsonby reveal the closeness of their friendship. She sent information, opinion, and verse, some of it probably written by herself. Among books she discussed were Ann Radcliffe 's The Mysteries...
Textual Production Elizabeth Heyrick
She printed this for the Author,
Heyrick, Elizabeth. Familiar Letters Addressed to Children and Young Persons of the Middle Ranks. Darton, Harvey and Darton, 1811.
title-page
which means she took the risk and would keep the profit after paying her publisher, Darton, Harvey and Darton . (A Leicester bookseller was also listed on...
Textual Production Jan Morris
More than a decade later, in 1978, JM followed her own portrait of Oxford by editing The Oxford Book of Oxford, a quirky anthology of often very short anecdotes and other excerpts, aimed less...

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