Hannah More's claim to the title of novelist rests on a single work, Coelebs in Search of a Wife (1808). This book represented to many a remarkable divergence from More's literary practice and a potential contradiction of her frequently articulated...

The life and literary achievement of Hannah More are extraordinarily varied: she was a noted conversationalist and poet in the intellectual circles of Elizabeth Montagu and Samuel Johnson; successful dramatist and intimate friend of David Garrick;...

Hannah More, English poet, playwright, essayist, and educator, was influential in several of the great reform movements of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, particularly the call for appropriate female education, establishing a new model for...

A growing number of farmers and entrepreneurs are turning dung into dollars.Manure sales are up, as more grain and vegetable farmers turn to animal waste as an alternative to higher-priced commercial fertilizer, say state agriculture regulators. The market also has grown because of the emergence...

In the following excerpt, Ford surveys More's ambivalent attitude toward the aristocracy and male supremacy as revealed in her early essays and dramas.

In the following essay, Demers explores More's role as a poet and as a literary patron of Ann Yearsley, a working-class poet from Bristol, England.

In the following essay, Pedersen contends that More was attempting to counter the preponderance of unsuitable reading material for the poor through her tract writing, rather than trying to protect the prevailing social and political orders from possible revolution, as is often claimed by critics.