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Hannah More; Hannah More (1745-1833) was a true heroine of Somerset history. She became a national celebrity as an author and philanthropist, but her story is little known today. The Bluestockings. She was born at Fishponds, near Bristol, one of five daughters of a schoolmaster, and gained early fame in London as a playwright.
3 de out. de 1991 · This book answers such questions through a close examination of the lives and selected works of two late eighteenth-century women writers, Hannah More and Maria Edgeworth, who were complicitous with their fathers’ politics. While feminist theory has developed a powerful body of explanations for some women’s rebellion against patriarchy, it ...
Hannah More (2 de febrero de 1745 - 7 de septiembre de 1833) fue una escritora y filántropa inglesa especializada en religión. Es principalmente reconocida por haber pertenecido al selecto círculo de Johnson , Reynolds y Garrick , por sus obras puritanas , y por sus prácticas como filántropa.
Born 2 February at Fishponds, Stapleton, Gloucestershire. 1758. Mary More opens a boarding school in Trinity Street, Bristol. c.1762. The More sisters build a school in Park Street, Bristol. c.1767. Visits the estate of William Turner at Belmont; later accepts his proposal of marriage. 1769.
Hannah More (2 février 1745- 7 septembre 1833) : poétesse et écrivaine. Hannah More est une éducatrice, une écrivaine et une réformatrice sociale qui a contribué à mettre fin à la traite négrière, à changer la manière de penser des classes supérieures de Grande-Bretagne, et qui a enseigné à une nation comment lire.
Fierce Convictions weaves together world and personal history into a stirring story of life that intersected with Wesley and Whitefield’s Great Awakening, the rise and influence of Evangelicalism, and convulsive effects of the French Revolution. A woman of exceptional intellectual gifts and literary talent, Hannah More was above all a person ...
