Memoir of Mrs. Hannah More
Memoir of Mrs. Hannah More

Author: Thomas Taylor

Publisher:

Published: 2015-07-02

Total Pages: 488

ISBN-13: 9781330559734

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Excerpt from Memoir of Mrs. Hannah More: With Notices of Her Works, and Sketches of Her Contemporaries If it be not admitted that Mrs. More was the most popular writer of the past age, it cannot be disputed that she was one of the most useful. Few individuals, in any age, have employed their pen in defending the truths, and elucidating the nature of Christian piety, with happier effect. All her productions were of a popular cast, suited to that numerous class who seek information in a form concise and interesting, and have little taste, and less time, for the perusal of voluminous works. To this class the Author of these Memoirs has attempted to adapt this volume. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

The World Of Hannah More
The World Of Hannah More

Author: Patricia Demers

Publisher: University Press of Kentucky

Published: 2021-11-21

Total Pages: 238

ISBN-13: 0813187338

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History has not been kind to Hannah More. This once lionized writer and activist—the most influential female philanthropist of her day—is now considered by many to be the embodiment of pious morality and reactionary anti-feminism. Largely because of her belief in separate spheres for men and women, More has been vilified by modern-day feminists. The first biography to examine the complete range of her life and work, The World of Hannah More depicts the author as a forceful voice in her own day and one who, from the point of view of plain justice, today deserves a more nuanced treatment. Without denying the problems More presents for modern readers, Patricia Demers has produced a balanced revisionist study of a woman enormously influential in late-eighteenth-and early-nineteenth-century England. By examining the career of this cultural warrior, situating her major texts in relation to contemporaries, and addressing her published writing, philanthropic activities, and voluminous correspondence, Demers anchors The World of Hannah More in the work itself—an appropriate and just response to a woman who took pride in living to some purpose. Trying to deal justly with More and her female moral imperialism requires admitting both the expansiveness and the limitations of her charity, methodology and vision. Without venerating or trivializing, Demers pursues the doubleness and contradictions of More's largely neglected or superficially mined works, from the determined experiments of the earliest plays to the poignantly revealing essays on practical piety, Christian morals, and Saint Paul.