Hannah More
Hannah More (2 February 1745 – 7 September 1833) was an English religious writer, philanthropist, poet, and playwright in the circle of
Johnson,
Reynolds and
Garrick, who wrote on moral and religious subjects. Born in
Bristol, she taught at a school her father founded there and began writing plays. She became involved in the London literary elite and a leading
Bluestocking member. Her later plays and poetry became more evangelical. She joined a group opposing the
slave trade. In the 1790s she wrote ''
Cheap Repository Tracts'' on moral, religious and political topics, to distribute to the literate poor (as a retort to
Thomas Paine's ''
Rights of Man''). Meanwhile, she broadened her links with schools she and her sister Martha had founded in rural
Somerset. These curbed their teaching of the poor, allowing limited reading but no writing. More was noted for her
political conservatism, being described as an
anti-feminist, a "counter-revolutionary", or a
conservative feminist.
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