Hannah More

Originally published in 1952, this biography collects both the published and unpublished correspondence of playwright and educator Hannah More.

M. G. Jones (Author)

9781107622043, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 12 September 2013

306 pages
21.6 x 14 x 1.7 cm, 0.39 kg

Originally published in 1952, this biography collects both the published and unpublished correspondence of Hannah More, as well as the plethora of references made to her in contemporary letters and memoirs, in order to create a portrait of a deeply religious and philanthropic playwright and educator who challenged the mores of her society. Jones charts the continuity and change of More's interests through her life, and in doing so reveals a cross-section of English religious and social life in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. This book will be of value to anyone with an interest in the role and place of women in this period of great cultural development and change.

List of illustrations
Preface
Acknowledgements
Part I. Bristol: 1. The school in Park Street
Part II. London: 2. The drama
3. The 'literati'
4. The saints
5. The great and the gay
Part III. Somerset: 6. The tracts
7. The schools
8. The Blagdon controversy
9. The making of many books
10. Ladies in retirement
11. Conclusion
Notes
Appendix I. Cheap repository tracts ascribed to Hannah More
Appendix II. Hannah More's major writings as published in her lifetime
Index.

Subject Areas: British & Irish history [HBJD1]