Hannah More (2 February 1745 – 7 September 1833) was an English religious writer and philanthropist. She can be said to have made three reputations in the course of her long life: as a clever verse-writer and witty talker in the circle of Johnson, Reynolds and Garrick, as a writer on moral and religious subjects, and as a practical philanthropist.
Born in 1745 at Fishponds in the parish of Stapleton, near Bristol, Hannah More was the fourth of fi...
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Hannah More (2 February 1745 – 7 September 1833) was an English religious writer and philanthropist. She can be said to have made three reputations in the course of her long life: as a clever verse-writer and witty talker in the circle of Johnson, Reynolds and Garrick, as a writer on moral and religious subjects, and as a practical philanthropist.
Born in 1745 at Fishponds in the parish of Stapleton, near Bristol, Hannah More was the fourth of five daughters of Jacob More, who, though from a Presbyterian family in Norfolk, had become a member of the Church of England, a strong Tory and a schoolmaster at Stapleton in Gloucestershire. In 1756 Hannah More's eldest sister, Mary, established a boarding school at 6 Trinity Street in Bristol which after a few years moved to Park Street. More became a pupil when she was twelve years old, and taught there in her early adulthood.
Hannah More's first literary efforts were pastoral plays, suitable for young ladies to act, the first being written...
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