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| Born | 2 February 1745 Fishponds, Bristol, England |
| Died | 7 September 1833 (aged 88) Clifton, Bristol, England |
| Resting place | Wrington, Somerset, England |
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Hannah More (2 February 1745 – 7 September 1833) was an English religious writer, philanthropist, poet, and playwright in the circle of Johnson, Reynolds and Garrick, who wrote on moral and religious subjects. Born in Bristol, she taught at a school her father founded there and began writing plays. She became involved in the London literary elite and a leading Bluestocking member. Her later plays and poetry became more evangelical. She joined a group opposing the slave trade. In the 1790s she wrote Cheap Repository Tracts on moral, religious and political topics, to distribute to the literate poor (as a retort to Thomas Paine's Rights of Man). Meanwhile, she broadened her links with schools she and her sister Martha had founded in rural Somerset. These curbed their teaching of the poor, allowing limited reading but no writing. More was noted for her political conservatism, being described as an anti-feminist, a "counter-revolutionary", or a conservative feminist.[1]
- ^ Harriet Guest, 2005, "Hannah More and Conservative Feminism", British Women's Writing in the Long Eighteenth Century. London: Palgrave Macmillan.