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Hannah More (2 de fevereiro de 1745 - 7 de setembro de 1833) foi uma escritora e filantropa religiosa inglesa, lembrada como poeta e dramaturga no círculo de Samuel Johnson, Joshua Reynolds e David Garrick, como escritora de assuntos morais e religiosos e como filantropa prática [1].
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Born in 1745 at Fishponds in the parish of Stapleton, near Bristol, Hannah More was the fourth of five daughters of Jacob More (1700–1783), a schoolmaster from a strong Presbyterian family in Harleston, Norfolk, who had joined the Church of England. He sought to pursue a clerical career, but after losing a lawsuit over an estate he had hoped to inh...
More's first literary efforts were pastoral plays written while she was still teaching and suitable for young ladies to act. The first was The Search after Happiness, written in 1762. By the mid-1780s over 10,000 copies of this had been sold. Among her literary models was Metastasio, on whose opera Attilio Regulo she based a drama, The Inflexible C...
In the 1780s Hannah More became a friend of James Oglethorpe, who had long been concerned with slavery as a moral issue and who was working with Granville Sharp as an early abolitionist. More published Sacred Dramas in 1782, which rapidly ran through 19 editions. These and the poems Bas-Bleu and Florio (1786) mark a gradual transition to graver vie...
In Hannah More's last years, philanthropists from all parts made pilgrimages to Wrington, and after 1828 to Clifton, where she died on 7 September 1833. More left about £30,000, chiefly in legacies to charitable institutions and religious societies. The residue was to go to a new Church of St Philip and St Jacob in Bristol. She was buried beside he...
Several local schools and St. Michael's Church (Reisterstown, Maryland) are named after More. Hannah More Primary School was built in Bristol Old Market in the 1840s. Her image appeared in 2012 on the Bristol Pound, a local currency.The street in Wrington where she was buried has been named Hannah More Close. However, the Liberal politician Augusti...
Letters to, from and about Hannah More are held by Bristol Archives, including one from William Wilberforce (Ref. 28048/C/1/2) (online catalogue).Records relating to Hannah More appear at the British Library, Manuscript Collections, Longleat, Newport Central Library, the Bodleian Library, Cambridge University: St John's College Library, the Victori...
This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "More, Hannah". Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 18 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. pp....Stephen, Leslie (1894). "More, Hannah" . In Lee, Sidney (ed.). Dictionary of National Biography. Vol. 38. London: Smith, Elder & Co. pp. 414–420.Primary sources
1. Hannah More, Works of Hannah More, 2 vols. New York: Harper, 1840
Biographies
1. Anna Jane Buckland, The life of Hannah More. A lady of two centuries. London: Religious Tract Society, 1882, 2. Jeremy and Margaret Collingwood, Hannah More. Oxford: Lion Publishing, 1990, ISBN 0-7459-1532-9 3. Crossley Evans, Martin, Hannah More. Bristol Historical Association pamphlets, no. 99, 1999, 32 pp. 4. Patricia Demers, The World of Hannah More. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1996, ISBN 0-8131-1978-2 5. Charles Howard Ford, Hannah More: A Critical Biography. New York: Pe...
Other sources
1. Elliott, Dorice Williams (1995). "The Care of the Poor Is Her Profession: Hannah More and Women's Philanthropic Work". Nineteenth-Century Contexts. 19 (2): 179–204. doi:10.1080/08905499508583421. hdl:1808/20908. 2. Kelly, Gary (1987). "Revolution, Reaction, and the Expropriation of Popular Culture: Hannah More's Cheap Repository". Man and Nature. 6: 147–59. doi:10.7202/1011875ar. 3. Jacqueline McMillan, "Hannah More: From Versificatrix to Saint", In Her Hand: Letters of Romantic-Era Britis...
Hannah More at the Eighteenth-Century Poetry Archive (ECPA)Works by Hannah More at Project GutenbergWorks by Hannah More at Faded Page(Canada)Works by Hannah More at Osborne Collection of Early Children's Books (Toronto Public Library)Hannah More (1745-1833), no Brasil menos conhecida que os seus amigos John Wesley e William Wilberforce, foi uma escritora, dramaturga e reformadora social reconhecida sobretudo por suas obras literárias de cunho moral, político e religioso.
27 de mar. de 2024 · Hannah More was an English religious writer, best known as a writer of popular tracts and as an educator of the poor. As a young woman with literary aspirations, More made the first of her visits to London in 1773–74. She was welcomed into a circle of Bluestocking wits and was befriended by Sir
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A British playwright, abolitionist, and philanthropist, More was born near Bristol. Her father, a headmaster, trained More and her sisters to be teachers. Hannah More’s father and older sisters founded a school when the girls were in their teens, and More taught there as a young woman. Her play The…
28 de mar. de 2022 · Hannah More (1745-1833) used her pen and her literary talents to promote four main causes: the reformation of manners, the abolition of slavery, the education of women and the alleviation of...
26 de out. de 2002 · he Evangelical philanthropist Hannah More (1745-1833) provides an indispensable link between the Georgian and Victorian periods. Born just before the last Jacobite rebellion, she lived to see the beginnings of the railway age. In her youth she was the friend of David Garrick, Samuel Johnson, and Horace Walpole.
