PART I
[Footnote A: This story exhibits an accurate
picture of that part of the country where the author
then resided; and where, by her benevolent zeal, a
great reformation was effected among t...
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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 ...
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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 con...
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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 poten...
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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 appropriat...
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Stories for the Young
Hannah More