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...

Accepted by many of her contemporaries as the ultimate authority on the moral life and how to achieve it, Hannah More wrote fiction, poetry, drama, treatises on education, and didactic essays. She concerned herself with the welfare of children, the...