HM
's father taught her Latin. She then received more advanced instruction from James Newton
, tutor at the Bristol Baptist Academy, to whom she was introduced by her neighbour James Stonhouse
.
Cottle, Joseph. Reminiscences of Samuel Taylor Coleridge and Robert Southey. 2nd ed., Houlston and Stoneman, 1847.
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Friends, Associates
Hannah More
The More family benefited from the patronage of several local, well-placed gentry: of Norborne Berkeley, later Baron Bottetourt
, and his nephew's wife, and of the Rev. James Stonhouse (or Stonehouse)
, a baronet. Stonhouse...
Wealth and Poverty
Hannah More
In the end, the suggestion of Stonhouse
was instrumental in Turner's settling on HM
an annuity of £200 to compensate for not marrying her. She sent him a copy of each title she published; when...