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Hannah More: A Critical Biography

Book by Charles Howard Ford; Peter Lang, 1996

Subjects:

Authors, English--18th Century--Biography, Authors, English--19th Century--Biography, More, Hannah--1745-1833, Women And Literature--England--History--18th Century, Women And Literature--England--History--19th Century, Women Educators--Great Britain--Biography

Collections: Education, Literature, Entire Library

Hannah More Studies in Nineteenth-Century British...Berlin Vienna Paris Charles Howard Ford Hannah More A Critical Biography PETER LANG...Cataloging-in-Publication Data Ford, Charles Howard. Hannah More: a critical biography/ Charles Howard Ford...
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Hannah More

Book by M. G. Jones; 1952

Subjects:

More, Hannah--1745-1833

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

HANNAH MORE HANNAH MORE IN 1787 From the portrait by Opie. "Opie made cruel havoc of female...RICHARD POLEWHELE , Tradition and Recollections 1826 p. 77. HANNAH MORE By M. G. JONES LITT.D Fellow of Girton College CAMBRIDGE AT...
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Women Writers and the English Nation in the 1790s: Romantic Belongings

Book by Angela Keane; Cambridge University Press, 2000

Subjects:

English Literature--18th Century--History And Criticism, English Literature--Women Authors--History And Criticism, Nationalism In Literature, Politics And Literature--Great Britain--History--18th Century, Romanticism--England--History--18th Century, Women And Literature--England--History--18th Century

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

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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Fathers of the Victorians: The Age of Wilberforce

Book by Ford K. Brown; University Press, 1961

Subjects:

Evangelicalism--Church Of England, Wilberforce, William--1759-1833

Collections: Religious Studies, Entire Library

...if that could have been done, Hannah More, Evangelicalisms greatest publicist...Scottish Chiefs was congratulating Hannah More on her leading part in the reformation...1815 Miss Jane Porter wrote to Hannah More to praise the blessing her pen...
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Romantic Poetry by Women: A Bibliography, 1770-1835

Book by J. R. de J. Jackson; Clarendon Press, 1993

Subjects:

American Poetry--Women Authors--Bibliography, English Poetry--18th Century--Bibliography, English Poetry--19th Century--Bibliography, English Poetry--Women Authors--Bibliography, Romanticism--Bibliography, Women And Literature--English-Speaking Countries--Bibliography, Women--Poetry--Bibliography

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

This book is the first major bibliography of women's writings of the Romantic period, providing exhaustive coverage of the volumes of verse written by women in English during this crucial period. The Bibliography lists 1,403 works (and 2,585 editions) by about 900 authors and reveals for the first ...
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This book is the first major bibliography of women's writings of the Romantic period, providing exhaustive coverage of the volumes of verse written by women in English during this crucial period. The Bibliography lists 1,403 works (and 2,585 editions) by about 900 authors and reveals for the first time the scale of the involvement of women in the Romantic movement. It covers publications of eight pages and longer, including publications in foreign languages and translations from foreign languages, and is fully indexed and cross-referenced with complete publication details. Jackson's meticulous work will be indispensable to all scholars and students researching women's poetry of the Romantic age.
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Journal Articles on: "Hannah More"

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In Praise of Poverty: Hannah More Counters Thomas Paine and the Radical Threat

Journal article by Tim Burke; Criticism, Vol. 45, 2003

Subjects:

Books--Book reviews, In Praise of Poverty: Hannah More Counters Thomas Paine and the Radical Threat (Book)--Book reviews

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

In Praise of Poverty: Hannah More Counters Thomas Paine and the Radical...Burke In Praise of Poverty: Hannah More Counters Thomas Paine and the Radical...have read widely in the works of Hannah More? One senses strongly that here...
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In Praise of Poverty: Hannah More Counters Thomas Paine and the Radical Threat

Journal article by Jane Nardin; CLIO, Vol. 32, 2003

Subjects:

In Praise of Poverty: Hannah More Counters Thomas Paine and the Radical Threat (Book)

Collections: Philosophy, History, Literature, Entire Library

In Praise of Poverty: Hannah More Counters Thomas Paine and the Radical...255 pages. In this study of Hannah More, the popular late-eighteenth and...ordained clergyman. In her biography Hannah More, M. G. Jones notes that, for the...
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Avoiding the Perils of the Muse: Hannah More, Didactic Literature, and Eighteenth-Century Criticism

Journal article by Jane Nardin; Papers on Language & Literature, Vol. 36, 2000

Subjects:

Criticism--18th century, Didactic literature--Analysis, Literature and morals--Analysis, Literature--18th century, More, Hannah--Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...Avoiding the Perils of the Muse: Hannah More, Didactic Literature, and Eighteenth-Century...In 1761 a pious teenager named Hannah More sat down to write a play. As a...Publishing Co., 1979. Jones, M.G. Hannah More. Cambridge, Cambridge UP, 1952...
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Star-Gazing with Fanny Price

Journal article by Maggie Lane; Persuasions: The Jane Austen Journal, Vol. 28, 2006

Subjects:

Austen, Jane--Criticism and interpretation, Austen, Jane--Works, Authors, English--Criticism and interpretation, Authors, English--Works, English writers--Criticism and interpretation, English writers--Works, Mansfield Park (Novel)--Criticism and interpretation

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...Mansfield Park in the 1809 novel by Hannah More, Coelebs in Search of a Wife...thirty years before Jane Austen, Hannah More was an established author and household...January 1809 the sixty-three-year-old Hannah More published her one and only novel...
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Theatricality and Cosmopolitanism in Hannah Cowley's the Belle's Stratagem

Journal article by Elizabeth Kowaleski Wallace; Comparative Drama, Vol. 35, 2001

Subjects:

Cowley, Hannah--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Drama--Criticism, interpretation, etc., The Belle's Stratagem (Theater)--Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...home were similarly apparent to Hannah More, who accordingly abandoned her...In an often-cited passage from Hannah More, parents are counseled to teach...Belles Stratagem, as if to answer Hannah More and those promoting female provincialism...

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Magazine Articles on: "Hannah More"

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The World of Paperbacks

Magazine article; Contemporary Review, Vol. 283, August 2003

Subjects:

Book publishing--Management, Oxford University Press--Management, Publishing industry--Management, Thames & Hudson--Management, Vintage Trade Books--Management

Collections: Entire Library

...undermine the authors scholarship. Hannah More: The First Victorian. Anne Stott...the lust scholarly biography of Hannah More to be written for fifty years and...wrote a BBC Radio documentary on Hannah More in 1983, which made many of these...
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The Idea of Compassion: The British vs. the French Enlightenment

Magazine article by Gertrude Himmelfarb; Public Interest, Fall 2001

Subjects:

Enlightenment--Analysis, Political ethics--Analysis, Social problems--Moral and ethical aspects, Sympathy--Philosophy

Collections: Philosophy, Entire Library

...create what the evangelical writer Hannah More called (not entirely in praise...relief for the aged and sick; and Hannah More was an enthusiastic supporter of...made much of the insistence of Hannah More and others that instruction he...
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Working-Class Poets and Self-Education

Magazine article by A.D. Harvey; Contemporary Review, Vol. 274, May 1999

Subjects:

Poets--Social aspects, Self-culture--United Kingdom, United Kingdom--18th century, Working class--Social aspects

Collections: Education, Entire Library

...feature of the biographies of working-class poets. James Woodhouse was discovered by William Shenstone, Ann Yearsley by Hannah More, Robert Bloomfield by Capel Lofft, Joseph Blacket by Samuel Jackson Pratt, John Jones by Robert Southey: in all these...
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The Age of Philanthropy

Magazine article by Gertrude Himmelfarb; The Wilson Quarterly, Vol. 21, Spring 1997

Subjects:

Charities--United Kingdom, Social service--United Kingdom

Collections: Entire Library

...of the prison system, and Jonas Hanway, who devised the "boarding out" system to remove infants from the poorhouses. Hannah More, preferring moral reformation to philanthropy, characterized this period, not altogether in praise, as "the Age of Benevolence...
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Publish or Be Damned: David Johnson Describes the Infamous Marriage Act of 1753, Which Made Marriage a Tightly-Regulated Institution Governed by Church and State

Magazine article by David Johnson; History Today, Vol. 53, November 2003

Subjects:

Marriage customs and rites--History, Marriage law--Interpretation and construction, United Kingdom. Marriage Act 1753

Collections: History, Entire Library

...now imbued with an aura of grace and righteousness that was almost a precondition of religious salvation. Matriarch Hannah More stressed the positive importance of marriage for women: it is the profession of ladies to be wives, mothers and mistresses...

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Newspaper Articles on: "Hannah More"

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Food & Drink: Book for Lunch; OUT FOR A BITE

Newspaper article; Daily Post (Liverpool, England), November 13, 2007

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...his study his Temple of Peace, his love affair with the printed word having began in earnest as a child when author Hannah More gave him a copy of her book Sacred Dramas. His collection grew and grew during his schooling at Eton, and later as a...
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A Dynasty of the High and Mighty

Newspaper article; The Journal (Newcastle, England), September 7, 2006

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...high ranking civil servant who has split historians over his role of providing famine relief for the Irish. He married Hannah More Macaulay, sister of the historian Lord Macaulay. Their son George Otto Trevelyan became Liberal MP for Tynemouth, served...
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Opening a New Hi-Tech Chapter in Gladstone's N. Wales Library; WHAT Would That Ultimate Victorian William Gladstone Thought of His North Wales Library Going Electronic Peter Elson Reports on How a Major New Project Aims to Beam the Former Prime Minister into the 21st Century

Newspaper article; Daily Post (Liverpool, England), November 17, 2005

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...Gladstones passion for books began at an early age when he was presented with acopy of Sacred Dramas by thebooks author, Hannah More Numerous authors presented Gladstone with their first editions. His collection grew rapidly while studying at Christ...
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Whether We like It or Not City Was Built on Slavery; SIX in the City Tonight: LAWRENCE WESTGAPH

Newspaper article; Liverpool Echo (Liverpool, England), March 5, 2007

Subjects:

Slavery

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...abolitionists should be honoured, be they black or white, male or female. Individuals like Oluadah Eguiano, Ottobah Cugoano and Hannah More are as important as Wilberforce and Sharp. LHF also failed to realise it wasnt only Liverpool that benefited, Manchester...
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Bluestocking Blues

Newspaper article; The Evening Standard (London, England), April 4, 2008

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...astrenuous supporter of Charles Fox; and to the right, Charlotte Lennox,novelist and advocate of "Studies proper to a Woman", Hannah More, dramatistand writer, Elizabeth Montague, literary critic, Elizabeth Griffith, novelistand playwright, and, seated with...

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Encyclopedia Articles on: "Hannah More"

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Bluestocking

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...consisted of conversation on literary subjects. Eminent men of the day were invited to contribute to these conversations. Hannah More , Elizabeth Montagu , and Elizabeth Carter , among others, continued this tradition. Boswell, in his Life of Dr...
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Clapham Sect

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...Anglicans and members of Parliament. They included Zachary Macaulay, Thomas Babington, John Venn, James Stephen, and Hannah More. Known as the "Saints," they worked for the abolition of the slave trade and slavery, improvement of prison conditions...

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