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.
Photograph of a painting of Hannah More by Henry William Pickersgill, 1822. She is seated on a red-upholstered chair beside a little table draped in red fabric and bearing a quill pen, inkwell, and piece of paper. She wears a blue-green mantle with V neck and creamy fabric at the cuffs and neckline, finished with a ruff around her neck. She has a gold shawl and a cap topped with pale blue ribbons. More wrote that she was "condemned, sorely against her will," to sit for this portrait. The version here, in th

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Textual Production Henrietta Maria Bowdler
HMB 's letters to Sarah Ponsonby reveal the closeness of their friendship. She sent information, opinion, and verse, some of it probably written by herself. Among books she discussed were Ann Radcliffe 's The Mysteries...
Textual Production Elizabeth Heyrick
She printed this for the Author,
Heyrick, Elizabeth. Familiar Letters Addressed to Children and Young Persons of the Middle Ranks. Darton, Harvey and Darton, 1811.
title-page
which means she took the risk and would keep the profit after paying her publisher, Darton, Harvey and Darton . (A Leicester bookseller was also listed on...
Textual Production Jan Morris
More than a decade later, in 1978, JM followed her own portrait of Oxford by editing The Oxford Book of Oxford, a quirky anthology of often very short anecdotes and other excerpts, aimed less...
Textual Production Ann Taylor Gilbert
Ann Taylor (later ATG ) was invited (as a consequence of her long letter to Josiah Conder about More 's Coelebs) to review regularly for the evangelical Eclectic Review.
Gilbert, Ann Taylor. Ann Taylor Gilbert’s Album. Editor Stewart, Christina Duff, Garland, 1978.
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Gilbert, Ann Taylor. Autobiography and Other Memorials of Mrs. Gilbert. Editor Gilbert, Josiah, H. S. King, 1874, 2 vols., http://U of A, HSS Ruth N .
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Textual Production Sarah Trimmer
The option of bulk purchase as a valuable present to the poor, and to young people in general,
qtd. in
O’Malley, Andrew. “The Coach and Six: Chapbook Residue in Late Eighteenth-Century Children’s Literature”. The Lion and The Unicorn, Vol.
24
, 2000, pp. 18-44.
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indicates that she, like Hannah More after her, hoped to improve the labouring classes through the...
Textual Production Elizabeth Heyrick
EH published another pamphlet on this topic this year, Bull-Baiting: a Village Dialogue Between Tom Brown and John Simms, its title modelled on Hannah More 's Cheap Repository Tracts.
Corfield, Kenneth. “Elizabeth Heyrick: Radical Quaker”. Religion in the Lives of English Women, 1760-1930, edited by Gail Malmgreen, Indiana University Press, 1986, pp. 41-67.
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Textual Production Charlotte Yonge
CY edited Biographies of Good Women, Chiefly by Contributors to The Monthly Packet: her subjects include public activists like Elizabeth Fry and Hannah More .
Battiscombe, Georgina, and E. M. Delafield. Charlotte Mary Yonge: The Story of an Uneventful Life. Constable and Company, 1943.
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Coleridge, Christabel. Charlotte Mary Yonge: Her Life and Letters. Macmillan and Co., 1903.
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Textual Production Frances Reynolds
FR 's surviving portraits are widely scattered. Her Hannah More is held by Bristol Museum and Art Gallery , and is reproduced in Elizabeth Egar and Lucy Peltz 's Brilliant Women: 18th-Century Bluestockings.
Eger, Elizabeth, and Lucy Peltz. Brilliant Women: 18th-Century Bluestockings. National Portrait Gallery, 2008.
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Textual Production Ann Yearsley
In this volume she meant to prove that her poetry was even better when not tampered with by Hannah More . Her Preface relates the circumstances of their quarrel over the terms of the trust...
Textual Production Hester Mulso Chapone
HMC contributed a pamphlet, Mary Wood the Housemaid, to Hannah More 's Cheap Repository Tracts series, 1795-8.
Textual Production Sarah Trimmer
From the second number it bore ST 's name. Hannah More came up with the idea for her Cheap Repository Tracts after two issues of Trimmer's magazine. If it was a model for her, she...
Textual Production Barbara Hofland
BH published a pamphlet on the quarrel between George IV and Queen Caroline, entitled An Englishwoman's Letter to Mrs. Hannah More.
Butts, Dennis. Mistress of our Tears, A Literary and Bibliographical Study of Barbara Hofland. Scolar Press, 1992.
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Textual Production Charlotte Yonge
CY contributed a biography, Hannah More, to the Eminent Women series.
Nadel, Ira Bruce, and William E. Fredeman, editors. Dictionary of Literary Biography 18. Gale Research, 1983.
18: 311
Textual Production Judith Sargent Murray
About a year after seeing a successful performance of one of Hannah More 's Sacred Dramas, JSM contributed her first theatre epilogue to an amateur performance at Gloucester in January 1790 of George Farquhar
Textual Production Anna Letitia Barbauld
She also wrote for school performance two short plays of slily political import, perhaps after reading Genlis 's Théâtre à l'usage des jeunes personnes, 1780. She must have enjoyed dramatic writing, since after seeing...

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