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.
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Like other old people living alone (such as Hannah More
) she was imposed on by servants: she reluctantly dismissed several individuals, including a maid named Kerrenhappuck who had lied to her about having an...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text
Harriet Martineau
Her subjects in the first essay are Hannah More
(especially her Practical Piety and An Essay on the Character and Practical Writings of Saint Paul) and Anna Letitia Barbauld
, whom she regarded as...
Textual Production
Emma Marshall
An idea for a fiction about Hannah More
's time at Cheddar
Marshall, Beatrice. Emma Marshall. Seeley.
206
gave rise (after EM
's publisher had advised leaving More out of it) to Under the Mendips, A Tale, which...
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...
Intertextuality and Influence
Anna Maria Mackenzie
Meanwhile the heroine, Maria Stanley, is unjustly spurned by her husband because he believes the lying insinuations of a jealous and wicked woman whom he has rejected, but the truth is revealed in time for...
Family and Intimate relationships
Catharine Macaulay
At twenty-one, he was much younger than she was (though many exaggerated the age difference), and of a lower rank (a saddler's son, and at the time of their marriage a surgeon's mate). He was...
Literary responses
Catharine Macaulay
Her biographer Bridget Hill
identifies CM
's fame as having lasted fifteen years: from the publication of her first volume to the date of her second marriage (1763-78). But in fact she continued to command...
Literary responses
Charlotte Lennox
Samuel Johnson
pronounced in conversation that CL
was worthy to rank with the exceptional women Carter
, More
, and Burney
: more yet, she was superiour to them all.
Boswell, James. Boswell’s Life of Johnson. Editors Hill, George Birkbeck and Laurence Fitzroy Powell, Clarendon.
4: 275
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.
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...
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.
336-7
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.
88
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.
177
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...