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MORE, HANNAH (1745-1833) , See also:English religious writer, was See also:born at Stapleton, near See also:Bristol, on the 2nd of See also:February 1745• She may be said to have made three reputations in the course of her See also:long See also:life: first, as a See also:clever See also:verse-writer and witty talker in the circle of See also:- JOHNSON, ANDREW
- JOHNSON, ANDREW (1808–1875)
- JOHNSON, BENJAMIN (c. 1665-1742)
- JOHNSON, EASTMAN (1824–1906)
- JOHNSON, REVERDY (1796–1876)
- JOHNSON, RICHARD (1573–1659 ?)
- JOHNSON, RICHARD MENTOR (1781–1850)
- JOHNSON, SAMUEL (1709-1784)
- JOHNSON, SIR THOMAS (1664-1729)
- JOHNSON, SIR WILLIAM (1715–1774)
- JOHNSON, THOMAS
Johnson, See also:Reynolds and See also:Garrick; next, as a writer on moral and religious subjects on the Puritanic See also:side; and lastly, as a See also:practical philanthropist. She was the youngest but one of the five daughters of See also:Jacob More, who, though a member of a Presbyterian See also:family in See also:Norfolk, had become a member of the English See also:- CHURCH
- CHURCH (according to most authorities derived from the Gr. Kvpcaxov [&wµa], " the Lord's [house]," and common to many Teutonic, Slavonic and other languages under various forms—Scottish kirk, Ger. Kirche, Swed. kirka, Dan. kirke, Russ. tserkov, Buig. cerk
- CHURCH, FREDERICK EDWIN (1826-1900)
- CHURCH, GEORGE EARL (1835–1910)
- CHURCH, RICHARD WILLIAM (1815–189o)
- CHURCH, SIR RICHARD (1784–1873)
Church and a strong Tory. He taught a school at Stapleton in See also:Gloucestershire. The See also:elder sisters established a boarding-school at Bristol, and Hannah became one of their pupils when she was twelve years old. Her first See also:literary efforts were See also:pastoral plays, suitable for See also:young ladies to See also:act, the first being written in 1762 under the See also:title of A Searck after Happiness (end ed. 1773).. See also:Metastasio was one of her literary See also:models; on his See also:opera of Attilio regulo she based a See also:drama, The Inflexible See also:Captive, published in 1774. She gave up her See also:share in the schoolin view of an engagement of See also:marriage she had contracted with a Mr See also:Turner. The See also:wedding never took See also:place, and, after much reluctance, Hannah More was induced to accept from Mr Turner an See also:annuity which had been settled on her without her knowledge. This set her See also:free for literary pursuits, and in 1.772 or 1773 she went to See also:London. Some verses on Garrick's See also:Lear led to an acquaintance with the actor-playwright; See also:Miss More was taken up by See also:Elizabeth Montague; and her unaffected See also:enthusiasm,simplicity, vivacity, and wit won the See also:hearts of the whole Johnson set, the lexicographer himself included, although he is said to have told her that she should " consider what her flattery was See also:worth before she choked him with it." Garrick wrote the See also:prologue and See also:epilogue for her tragedy See also:Percy, which was acted with See also:great success at Covent See also:Garden in See also:December 1777. Another drama, The Fatal Falsehood, produced in 1779 after Garrick's See also:death, was less successful. The Garricks had induced her to live with them; and after Garrick's death she remained with his wife, first at See also:Hampton See also:Court, and then in the Adelphi. In 1781 she made the acquaintance of See also:Horace See also:Walpole, and corresponded with him from that See also:- TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
- TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
- TIME, STANDARD
time. At Bristol she discovered a poetess in Mrs See also:Anne Yearsley (1756-1806), a milkwoman, and raised a consider-able sum of See also:money for her benefit. " Lactilla," as Mrs Yearsley was called, wished to receive the See also:capital, and made insinuations against Miss More, who desired to hold it in See also:trust. The -trust was handed over to a Bristol See also:merchant and eventually. to the poetess.
Hannah More published Sacred Dramas in 1782, and it rapidly ran through nineteen See also:editions. These and the poems Bas-Bleu and See also:Florio (1786) See also:mark her See also:gradual transition to See also:mere serious views of life, which were fully expressed in See also:prose. in her Thoughts on the Importance of the See also:Manners of the Great to See also:General, Society (1788), and An Estimate of the See also:Religion of the Fashionable See also:World (1790). She was intimate with See also:Wilberforce and Zachary See also:Macaulay, with whose evangelical views she was in entire sympathy. She published a poem on See also:Slavery in 1788. In 1785 she bought a See also:house, at Cowslip See also:Green, near Wrington, near Bristol, where she settled down to See also:country life with her See also:sister Martha, and wrote many ethical books and tracts: Strictures on See also:Female See also:Education (1799), Hints towards forming the See also:Character of a Young Princess (18o5), Coelebs in See also:Search of a Wife (only nominally a See also:story, 1809), Practical Piety (1811), See also:Christian Morals (1813), Character of St See also:Paul (1815), Moral Sketches (1819). The See also:tone is uniformly animated; the See also:writing fresh and vivacious; her favourite subjects the See also:minor self-indulgences and infirmities. She was a rapid writer, and her See also:work is consequently discursive and See also:form-less; but there was an originality and force in her way of putting See also:commonplace sober sense and piety that fully accounts for,See also:hel extraordinary popularity. The most famous of her books was Coelebs in Search of a. Wife, which had an enormous circulation among pious See also:people. See also:Sydney See also:- SMITH
- SMITH, ADAM (1723–1790)
- SMITH, ALEXANDER (183o-1867)
- SMITH, ANDREW JACKSON (1815-1897)
- SMITH, CHARLES EMORY (1842–1908)
- SMITH, CHARLES FERGUSON (1807–1862)
- SMITH, CHARLOTTE (1749-1806)
- SMITH, COLVIN (1795—1875)
- SMITH, EDMUND KIRBY (1824-1893)
- SMITH, G
- SMITH, GEORGE (1789-1846)
- SMITH, GEORGE (184o-1876)
- SMITH, GEORGE ADAM (1856- )
- SMITH, GERRIT (1797–1874)
- SMITH, GOLDWIN (1823-191o)
- SMITH, HENRY BOYNTON (1815-1877)
- SMITH, HENRY JOHN STEPHEN (1826-1883)
- SMITH, HENRY PRESERVED (1847– )
- SMITH, JAMES (1775–1839)
- SMITH, JOHN (1579-1631)
- SMITH, JOHN RAPHAEL (1752–1812)
- SMITH, JOSEPH, JR
- SMITH, MORGAN LEWIS (1822–1874)
- SMITH, RICHARD BAIRD (1818-1861)
- SMITH, ROBERT (1689-1768)
- SMITH, SIR HENRY GEORGE WAKELYN
- SMITH, SIR THOMAS (1513-1577)
- SMITH, SIR WILLIAM (1813-1893)
- SMITH, SIR WILLIAM SIDNEY (1764-1840)
- SMITH, SYDNEY (1771-1845)
- SMITH, THOMAS SOUTHWOOD (1788-1861)
- SMITH, WILLIAM (1769-1839)
- SMITH, WILLIAM (c. 1730-1819)
- SMITH, WILLIAM (fl. 1596)
- SMITH, WILLIAM FARRAR (1824—1903)
- SMITH, WILLIAM HENRY (1808—1872)
- SMITH, WILLIAM HENRY (1825—1891)
- SMITH, WILLIAM ROBERTSON (1846-'894)
Smith attacked it with violence in the See also:Edinburgh See also:Review for its general priggishness. It is interesting to See also:note that the See also:model See also:Stanley See also:children have been said to, be See also:drawn from T. B. Macaulay and his sister. She also wrote many spirited rhymes and prose tales, the earliest of which was See also:Village Politics (1792), by " Will Chip," to counteract the doctrines. of Tom See also:Paine and the influepce of the See also:French Revolution. The success of Village Politics induced her to begin the See also:series of " Cheap Repository Tracts," which were for three years produced by Hannah and her sisters at the See also:rate of three a See also:month. Perhaps the most famous of these is The Shepherd of See also:Salisbury See also:Plain, describing a family of phenomenal frugality and contentment. This was translated into several See also:languages. Two million copies of these rapid and telling sketches were circulated in•, one See also:year•, teaching the poor in See also:rhetoric of most ingenious homeliness -to rely upon the virtues of content, sobriety, humility,. See also:industry, reverence for the See also:British Constitution, hatred of the French, trust in See also:God and in the kindness of. the gentry.
Perhaps the best See also:- PROOF (in M. Eng. preove, proeve, preve, &°c., from O. Fr . prueve, proeve, &c., mod. preuve, Late. Lat. proba, probate, to prove, to test the goodness of anything, probus, good)
proof of Hannah More's See also:sterling worth was her indefatigable philanthropic work—her long-continued exertions to improve the See also:condition of the children in the See also:mining districts of the Mendip Hills near her See also:home at Cowslip Green and See also:Barley See also:Wood. The More sisters rnet with a See also:good See also:deal of
opposition in their good See also:works. The farmers thought that education, even to the limited extent of learning to read, would be fatal to See also:agriculture, and the See also:clergy, whose neglect she was making good, accused her of Methodist tendencies. In her old See also:age, philanthropists from all parts made pilgrimages to see the See also:bright and amiable old See also:lady, and she retained all her faculties till within two years of her death, dying at See also:Clifton, where the last five years of her life were spent, on the 7th of See also:September 1833.
See The Life of Hannah More, with Notices of Her Sisters (1838), by the Rev. See also:- HENRY
- HENRY (1129-1195)
- HENRY (c. 1108-1139)
- HENRY (c. 1174–1216)
- HENRY (Fr. Henri; Span. Enrique; Ger. Heinrich; Mid. H. Ger. Heinrich and Heimrich; O.H.G. Haimi- or Heimirih, i.e. " prince, or chief of the house," from O.H.G. heim, the Eng. home, and rih, Goth. reiks; compare Lat. rex " king "—" rich," therefore " mig
- HENRY, EDWARD LAMSON (1841– )
- HENRY, JAMES (1798-1876)
- HENRY, JOSEPH (1797-1878)
- HENRY, MATTHEW (1662-1714)
- HENRY, PATRICK (1736–1799)
- HENRY, PRINCE OF BATTENBERG (1858-1896)
- HENRY, ROBERT (1718-1790)
- HENRY, VICTOR (1850– )
- HENRY, WILLIAM (1795-1836)
Henry See also:Thompson. The See also:article in the Dict. Nat. Biog. is by See also:Sir See also:Leslie See also:Stephen. Some letters of Hannah More, with a very slight connecting narrative, were published in 1872 by See also:- WILLIAM
- WILLIAM (1143-1214)
- WILLIAM (1227-1256)
- WILLIAM (1J33-1584)
- WILLIAM (A.S. Wilhelm, O. Norse Vilhidlmr; O. H. Ger. Willahelm, Willahalm, M. H. Ger. Willehelm, Willehalm, Mod.Ger. Wilhelm; Du. Willem; O. Fr. Villalme, Mod. Fr. Guillaume; from " will," Goth. vilja, and " helm," Goth. hilms, Old Norse hidlmr, meaning
- WILLIAM (c. 1130-C. 1190)
- WILLIAM, 13TH
William See also:Roberts as The Life of Hannah More. See also Hannah More (1888), by See also:Charlotte M. See also:Yonge, in the " Eminent See also:Women " series, and Hannah More (New See also:York and London, 1900), by " See also:Marion See also:Harland." Letters of Hannah More to Zachary Macaulay were edited (186o) by See also:Arthur Roberts. The contemporary opposition to her may be seen in an abusive Life of Hannah More, with a See also:Critical Review of Her Writings (1802), by the " Rev. See also:Archibald Macsarcasm " (William See also:Shaw, See also:rector of Chelvey, See also:Somerset).
End of Article: MORE, HANNAH (1745-1833)
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