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.
The St James's Chronicle printed HC
's letter defending herself from the charge of plagiarism, and claiming that her Albina had been pillaged, before its staging, in both Percy and Fatal Falsehood by Hannah More
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Hannah Cowley
It was badly presented, by two of the cast in particular.
Escott, Angela. Email about supposed quarrel between Hannah Cowley and Hannah More to Isobel Grundy.
It had been completed by 1777, but rejected by Thomas Harris
of Covent Garden
, who then produced Hannah More
's Percy instead. Tragedy...
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Olaudah Equiano
Equiano was already a well-known figure in the abolitionist movement in Britain when his book appeared. He had issued Proposals for his subscription in November 1788 (the same month that George III
fell ill, probably...
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Lucy Walford
LW
's lives of Jane Taylor
, Elizabeth Fry
, Hannah More
, and Mary Somerville
, each originally printed in Blackwood's Magazine, appeared together as Four Biographies from Blackwood in Edinburgh and London.
A list of about 210 subscribers is given in the volume. They included Hannah More
and Jane
and Anna Maria Porter
. A sixth edition appeared in 1847.
Loeber, Rolf, and Magda Loeber. A Guide to Irish Fiction 1650-1900. Four Courts.
180
Garside, Peter et al., editors. The English Novel 1770-1829. Oxford University Press.
2: 660
The full title is...
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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
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Anne Francis
A political poem by AF
appeared at Norwich in the form of a broadside: A Plain Address to my Neighbours, on the model of Hannah More
.
Jackson, James Robert de Jager. Romantic Poetry by Women: A Bibliography, 1770-1835. Clarendon Press.
129
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Margaret Fuller
A review by MF
of two recent biographies, one of Hannah More
and another of George Crabbe
, appeared in the first issue of the Western Messenger. It was her first published piece of literary criticism.
Mehren, Joan von. Minerva and the Muse: A Life of Margaret Fuller. University of Massachusetts Press.
66
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Mary Ann Parker
Her subscribers included many naval and some military personnel, a sprinkling of the nobility, Sir Joseph Banks
and (separately) his wife
, Frances Boscawen
(bluestocking and admiral's widow), Hannah More
, and printer-antiquary John Bowyer Nichols
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Marion Reid
Scholar Margaret McFadden
notes that this work was tremendously successful, particularly in the United States, where it went through five editions between 1847 and 1852. The 1847 edition and all ensuing versions were printed...
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Jane Taylor
Like her sister
many years later, she replied robustly to complaint about her overtly Dissenting code of conduct. She reveals a clear sense of the disparity between standards applied to hegemonic beliefs and those applied...
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Elizabeth Sophia Tomlins
Reviews of this volume were somewhat lukewarm.
Tomlins, Elizabeth Sophia. “Introduction”. The Victim of Fancy, edited by Daniel Cook, Pickering and Chatto, p. xi - xxxi.
xi
Hannah More
briefly summarizes the story of Quashi in a note to her Slavery: A Poem, 1788 (without mentioning his love for the white Matilda). James G. Basker
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Mary Whateley Darwall
In April 1774 (ten years on from her first volume but long before her second) the Monthly Review (in a notice of Hannah More
's The Inflexible Captive) listed MWD
as one of the...