Hannah More: the first Victorian

by Stott, Anne

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Title Statements

Full title :Hannah More : the first Victorian / Anne Stott.

Summary

"Hannah More (1745-1833), the daughter of an obscure schoolmaster, began her working life as a teacher at her sisters' school in Bristol. In her thirtieth year she came to London to persuade the actor-manager David Garrick to put on one of her plays. Her subsequent career as playwright, bluestocking, Evangelical reformer, political writer, and novelist turned her into one of the most influential women of her day. Few of either sex could rival the range of her achievements." "This book is the first full-length biography of More for fifty years and the first to make extensive use of her unpublished correspondence. The new material shows her to have been a more lively and attractive character than previous stereotypes have suggested. It also reinforces the growing perception that she was a complex and contradictory figure : a conservative who was accused of political and religious subversion, an ostensible antifeminist who opened up new opportunities for female activism." "More's long life began just before the last Jacobite rising and ended at the dawn of the railway age. This book argues that she should be viewed as essentially forward-looking. When one of her early biographers dedicated his book to the young Queen Victoria, it was a fitting tribute to More's significance. In her energetic campaigning, her moral fervour, her belief in Britain's providential destiny, Hannah More anticipated many of the characteristics of Victorianism. She was one of the creators of the new

Age."--Résumé de l'éditeur

Edition Statements

Publication Date:2003.

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Oxford University Press
Place of Publication:Oxford
Language:eng
Publication Date:2003.

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The Physical Object

Description:1 ressource en ligne (xxi, 384 pages, [12] pages de planches) : : illustrations, cartes, fichiers HTML

Edition Identifiers

oclc:on1132098492
LC Classification:PR3605.M6
Dewey Decimal:828.6

Subjects

Authors, English Authors, English -- Biography. -- 18th … Authors, English -- Biography. -- 19th … Biographies Biography Écrivains anglais -- Biographies. -- 18… Écrivains anglais -- Biographies. -- 19… Éducateurs -- Biographies. -- Grande-Br… Educators Educators -- Biography. -- Great Britain England Femmes et littérature -- Histoire -- 18… Femmes et littérature -- Histoire -- 19… Great Britain History More, Hannah Women and literature Women and literature -- History -- 18th… Women and literature -- History -- 19th…