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.

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Connections Author name Excerpt
Textual Features Elizabeth Heyrick
She does not eschew politics on account of her readers' youth, but delivers an anti-war and anti-imperial message: The finest sight that could possibly be exhibited to me on earth, would be not a great...
Textual Production Elizabeth Heyrick
EH published another pamphlet on this topic this year, Bull-Baiting: a Village Dialogue Between Tom Brown and John Simms, its title modelled on Hannah More 's Cheap Repository Tracts.
Corfield, Kenneth. “Elizabeth Heyrick: Radical Quaker”. Religion in the Lives of English Women, 1760-1930, edited by Gail Malmgreen, Indiana University Press, pp. 41-67.
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Textual Production 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.
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Literary responses Barbara Hofland
In the early 1820s BH seems to have been at the apex of her career. She was appreciated not only by her friend Mary Russell Mitford (who believed that nobody else could combine so much...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Muriel Jaeger
She begins this book with a method not unlike that of Experimental Lives from Cato to George Sand. Her first chapter, Pioneers in Conversion, centres its topic on individuals, relating the sudden transformation...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Geraldine Jewsbury
Zoe reflects GJ 's own lifelong spiritual crisis.
Bloom, Abigail Burnham, editor. Nineteenth-Century British Women Writers. Greenwood Press.
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Susanne Howe notes that it anticipates later novels by Mary Augusta Ward and J. A. Froude , which also deal with spiritual doubt.
Howe, Susanne. Geraldine Jewsbury: Her Life and Errors. George Allen and Unwin.
72
Beginning in...
Friends, Associates Samuel Johnson
Boswell's is Johnson's most famous friendship, but his women friends were immensely important to him. Carter and Lennox were joined by Hester Thrale (though Johnson always reckoned her husband, Henry Thrale , if anything the...
Cultural formation Mary Ann Kelty
Retrospectively she remembered that at this time her thoughts were most harrassing, most degrading; yet . . . a holy, yet evanescent sentiment was also present.
Kelty, Mary Ann. Reminiscences of Thought and Feeling. W. Pickering.
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Under Simeon's influence she tried to convert Professor...
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...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Mary Ann Kelty
Her first subject is Princess Charlotte . After that MAK includes Henrietta (Mrs James) Fordyce , whose life had been written by Isabella Kelly in 1823, and many writers (including Lady Jane Grey , Lady Rachel Russell
politics Hannah Kilham
During her interval of time in England in 1828-30, HK spoke to meetings of Friends about her anti-slavery concerns. Disregarding difference of faith, she quoted Hannah More in these talks.
Kilham, Hannah. Memoir of the late Hannah Killam. Editor Biller, Sarah, Harvey and Darton.
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Publishing Hannah Kilham
At twelve pages, they sold for a penny, or for seven shillings the hundred (to those who intended to distribute them among the poor, as had been done with Hannah More 's Cheap Repository Tracts).
Dickson, Mora. The Powerful Bond: Hannah Kilham 1774-1832. Dobson.
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Theme or Topic Treated in Text Anna Margaretta Larpent
This diary, covering thirteen years of her later teens and her twenties, provides an annual list of people she spent her time with, public places she visited, and private entertainments she enjoyed. Its criticism, mostly...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Anna Margaretta Larpent
This later diary, generally written daily at any odd moment, provides indexing of special events which reveals AML 's methodical character. Occasional months are missing here and there. The diarist offers penetrating comment on a...
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.

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