More,
Hannah (1745–1833), an eminent member of the Blue Stocking
Circle. She published in 1773 The Search for Happiness, a pastoral play
for schools, and came to London in 1774, where she became a friend of Garrick
and his wife and of Burke, Dr Johnson, S. Richardson, and Percy. She was
greatly esteemed by Horace Walpole, who honoured her by printing her Bishop
Bonner's Ghost (1781) on his press at Strawberry Hill. Her tragedy Percy,
produced by Garrick in 1777, established her as a literary success. It
was followed by another tragedy, The Fatal Falsehood (1779). Her poem Bas
Bleu (1786) vividly describes the charm of Blue Stocking society. Meanwhile
she had begun to write tracts directed towards the reform of the conditions
of the poor; Village Politics (1793) and Cheap Repository Tracts (1795–8,
of which the best-known is The Shepherd of Salisbury Plain). In 1809 she
published her successful novel Coelebs in Search of a Wife. Her letters
give a full and entertaining picture of the intellectual and social world
she frequented.
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More, Hannah
(1745–1833) British poet and author
A Search After
Happiness (1766) V D
The Inflexible
Captive (1774) V
Sir Eldred
of the Bower, and The Bleeding Rock (1776) V
Essays on
Various Subjects (1777) NF
Percy (1778)
D
The Fatal
Falsehood (1779) D
Sacred
Dramas (1782) V
Florio; and
The Bas Bleu (1786) V
Slavery (1788)
V
Village Politics
(1793) NF
Coelebs in
Search of a Wife (1808) F
Practical
Piety (1811) NF
Christian
Morals (1813) NF
Moral Sketches
of Prevailing Opinions and Manners (1819) NF
Bible Rhymes
(1821) V
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