Hannah More
's biographer M. G. Jones
dated the heyday of the Bluestocking salons as 1770-85, but EM
had been holding salons for twenty years before this.
Jones, Mary Gwladys. Hannah More. Cambridge University Press, 1952.
Frances Boscawen
planted people in the audience briefed to lead the applause. The audience in fact loved the play, and its low number of performances is ascribed by HM
's biographer M. G. Jones
to...
Literary responses
Hannah More
Next year saw a rich crop of reviews. Sydney Smith
in the Edinburgh Review, while praising HM
's style and her skill at manipulating her readers, damned the novel as over-moralized, strained and unnatural...
Literary responses
Hannah More
HM
's biographer M. G. Jones
feels that in inventiveness and comedy HM
's later tracts show a sad falling-off from her earlier ones.
Jones, Mary Gwladys. Hannah More. Cambridge University Press, 1952.