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Hannah More 1745–1833 Eng. religious writer

More, Hannah (1745–1833)

From Handbook of Women Biblical Interpreters
For Hannah More, the Bible was the touchstone of her long productive career: a source of inspiration, a repository of allusions and phrases, a catalog of characters, a sustaining guide. Her deep knowledge of the sacred text, a central element of her daily reading regimen, and unwavering belief in its promises suffused her plays, poems, essays, tracts, and novel. She was an evangelical bluestocking and a socially hierarchical but “spiritually egalitarian” (Myers 239) Tory who championed such radical causes as the abolition of the slave trade and the education of the poor. More, a counterrevolutionary par excellence, was also one of the most influential and financially successful women writers in Georgian Britain. As “a progressive rather than a traditionalist,” whose vision of social reform extended “from palace to cottage” (Sutherland 52), More continues to defy conventional ideological or class stereotypes. The range and complexity of her writing are critical to understanding literary…
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From Continuum Encyclopedia of British Literature
More has long been widely dismissed as an earnest, limited moralist, and a dull writer. For much of her life, More certainly saw it as her mission to reform the morals of both the upper and lower classes. However, unusually for her time, More also advocated education for girls and for the rural…
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From Encyclopedia of Emancipation and Abolition in the Transatlantic World
The religious writer and philanthropist Hannah More was a pioneer of the British abolitionist movement. Her publication of Cheap Repository Tracts led to the formation of the Religious Tract Society in Great Britain in 1799. Her morally edifying tracts sold millions of copies and were reprinted in…
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From The Palgrave Macmillan Dictionary of Women's Biography
English poet, playwright, and religious writer. Born at Fishponds, Bristol, the fourth of five daughters of a schoolteacher, she was first a pupil then a teacher at her sisters’ school. After an engagement lasting six years she received £200 annual allowance as compensation from her reluctant…
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From Encyclopedia of the Romantic Era, 1760-1850
Hannah More was already in her fifties by the time of the publication of William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge's Lyrical Ballads in 1798, and she is, in many ways, most easily characterized as an eighteenth-century, rather than a Romantic, writer. As her poem “Sensibility” (1782) …
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From The Oxford Companion to Children's Literature
Prolific British writer of tracts for the religious and moral education of the working classes. She was the fourth of five daughters of a High Church schoolmaster and received part of her education at a school in Bristol established by her elder sisters and subsequently run by all five More girls. …
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From The Oxford Companion to British History
One of the best-known and most prolific polemicists of her day, Hannah More was born at Stapleton, near Bristol, and joined her sisters in running a school. She became acquainted with London literary circles and was a particular favourite with Dr *Johnson . A poem Sir Eldred was well received (1776) …
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From The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations
English writer of tracts and philanthropist For you’ll ne’er mend your fortunes, nor help the just cause, By breaking of windows, or breaking of laws. ‘An Address to the Meeting in Spa Fields’ (1817) in H. Thompson Life of Hannah More (1838) appendix, no. 7; see pankhurst He liked those literary…
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From Collins Dictionary of Quotations
Plagiarize: To take the thought or style of another writer whom one has never, never read. BIERCE, Ambrose The Enlarged Devil’s Dictionary (1961). When you steal from one author, it’s plagiarism; if you steal from many, it’s research. [Attr.] One could say of me that in this book I have only made up…
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From Collins Dictionary of Quotations
Home wasn’t built in a day. In Ace, G. , The Fine Art of Hypochondria (1966). Be it ever so humble there’s no place like home for sending one slowly crackers. The ideal of happiness has always taken material form in the house, whether cottage or castle; it stands for permanence and separation from…
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