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More, Hannah - 1745–1833, English author and social reformer. She was educated, and later taught, at her sisters' school for girls in Bristol. At the age of 22 she became engaged to William Turner, a wealthy squire 20 years older than she; he never married her, but settled an annuity on her that made her financially independent. She became a friend of many of the notable figures of her

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Hannah More: A Critical Biography » Read Now
by Charles Howard Ford. 314 pgs.

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Hannah More » Read Now
by M. G. Jones. 286 pgs.

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Avoiding the Perils of the Muse: Hannah More, Didactic Literature, and Eighteenth-Century Criticism, in Papers on Language & Literature » Read Now
by Jane Nardin. 1 pgs.

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Women Writers and the English Nation in the 1790s: Romantic Belongings (Chap. 6 "Patrician, Populist, and Patriot: Hannah More's Counter-Revolutionary Nationalism") » Read Now
by Angela Keane. 200 pgs.

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Angela Keane addresses the work of five women writers of the 1790s and its problematic relationship with the canon of Romantic literature. Refining arguments that women's writing has been overlooked, Keane examines the more complex underpinnings and exclusionary effects of the English national...
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Angela Keane addresses the work of five women writers of the 1790s and its problematic relationship with the canon of Romantic literature. Refining arguments that women's writing has been overlooked, Keane examines the more complex underpinnings and exclusionary effects of the English national literary tradition. The book explores the negotiations of literate, middle-class women such as Hannah More, Mary Wollstonecraft, Charlotte Smith, Helen Maria Williams and Ann Radcliffe with emergent ideas of national literary representation.
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Politics and Literature in the Eighteenth Century (Chap. 48 "Hannah More: Village Politics (1793)") » Read Now
by H. T. Dickinson. 236 pgs.

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Eighteenth-Century Women Poets: An Oxford Anthology ("Hannah More (1745-1833)" begins on p. 323) » Read Now
by Roger Lonsdale. 556 pgs.

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Who were the women poets of the eighteenth century? This anthology presents writings by more than a hundred women, few of which have been published in conventional surveys and anthologies of eighteenth-century verse. Unlike the women who wrote fiction, the vast majority who wrote verse have been...
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Who were the women poets of the eighteenth century? This anthology presents writings by more than a hundred women, few of which have been published in conventional surveys and anthologies of eighteenth-century verse. Unlike the women who wrote fiction, the vast majority who wrote verse have been ignored and forgotten since their own day. Lonsdale's collection represents a diverse group of female poets from washerwomen to duchesses whose writings began mostly at home as informal and unpretentious verse. As they grew in number and confidence, the women began writing in a great variety of poetic forms and on public as well as private topics, eventually finding their way into print. The collection brings to light the vigor and immediacy with which women poets spoke--from the resentful and melancholic to the humorous and exuberant--about town and country, and love and marriage, opening a new perspective on their age and providing the grounds for a reassessment of a neglected aspect of literature.
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Essays about Men, Women, and Books ("Hannah More" begins on p. 70) » Read Now
by Augustine Birrell. 240 pgs.

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