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.
Eger, Elizabeth, and Lucy Peltz. Brilliant Women: 18th-Century Bluestockings. National Portrait Gallery, 2008.
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Ann Yearsley
In this volume she meant to prove that her poetry was even better when not tampered with by Hannah More
. Her Preface relates the circumstances of their quarrel over the terms of the trust...
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Hester Mulso Chapone
HMC
contributed a pamphlet, Mary Wood the Housemaid, to Hannah More
's Cheap Repository Tracts series, 1795-8.
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Sarah Trimmer
From the second number it bore ST
's name. Hannah More
came up with the idea for her Cheap Repository Tracts after two issues of Trimmer's magazine. If it was a model for her, she...
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Barbara Hofland
BH
published a pamphlet on the quarrel between George IV
and Queen Caroline, entitled An Englishwoman's Letter to Mrs. Hannah More.
Butts, Dennis. Mistress of our Tears, A Literary and Bibliographical Study of Barbara Hofland. Scolar Press, 1992.
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Anna Letitia Barbauld
She also wrote for school performance two short plays of slily political import, perhaps after reading Genlis
's Théâtre à l'usage des jeunes personnes, 1780. She must have enjoyed dramatic writing, since after seeing...
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Judith Sargent Murray
About a year after seeing a successful performance of one of Hannah More
's Sacred Dramas, JSM
contributed her first theatre epilogue to an amateur performance at Gloucester in January 1790 of George Farquhar
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Charlotte Nooth
His De la littérature des Nègres in its original form reflects internationalism, anglophilia, and perhaps even proto-feminism. The title-page quotes Mary Robinson
. The roll of honour of white activists for abolition and racial equality...
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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...
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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...
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Emma Marshall
An idea for a fiction about Hannah More
's time at Cheddar
qtd. in
Marshall, Beatrice. Emma Marshall. Seeley, 1900.
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gave rise (after EM
's publisher had advised leaving More out of it) to Under the Mendips, A Tale, which...
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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...
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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...
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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.
