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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 [[Dr Samuel Johnson|Johnson]], [[Joshua Reynolds|Reynolds]] and [[David Garrick|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 [[Clapham Sect|group]] opposing the [[History of slavery|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 [[conservatism|political conservatism]], being described as an [[antifeminism|anti-feminist]], a [[counter-revolutionary]], or a [[Conservative variants of feminism|conservative feminist]].<ref>Harriet Guest, 2005, "Hannah More and Conservative Feminism", ''British Women's Writing in the Long Eighteenth Century''. London: Palgrave Macmillan.</ref>

==Early life==
Born in 1745 at [[Fishponds]] in the parish of [[Stapleton, Bristol|Stapleton]], near [[Bristol]], Hannah More was the fourth of five daughters of Jacob More (1700–1783),<ref name=CrossleyEvans>Crossley Evans, M. J., [https://archive.org/details/bha099 ''Hannah More''], University of Bristol (Bristol Historical Association), 1999.</ref> a schoolmaster from a strong [[Presbyterian]] family in [[Harleston, Norfolk]], who had joined the [[Church of England]]. He sought to pursue a clerical career, but after losing a lawsuit over an estate he had hoped to inherit he moved to Bristol, where he became an [[excise]] officer and later taught at the Fishponds [[Free education|free school]].

The sisters were first educated by their father, learning [[Latin]] and mathematics. Hannah was also taught by elder sisters, through whom she learned French, which she improved conversationally by spending time with French prisoners of war in [[Frenchay]] during the [[Seven Years' War]].<ref name=CrossleyEvans/> She was an assiduous, discerning student. Family tradition has it that she began writing at an early age.{{sfn |Stephen |1894}}

In 1758, Jacob established a girls' [[boarding school]] at Trinity Street, Bristol, for the elder sisters, Mary and Elizabeth, to run, while he and his wife moved to Stony Hill in the city to open a school for boys. Hannah More became a pupil in the girls' school when she was 12 years old and taught there in early adulthood.{{sfn |Stephen |1894}}

In 1767, More gave up her share in the school on becoming engaged to William Turner of the Belmont Estate, [[Wraxall, Somerset]], whom she had met when he began teaching her cousins.<ref name=CrossleyEvans/> After six years, the wedding had not taken place. Turner seemed reluctant to name a date and in 1773 the engagement was broken off. It seems this led More into a nervous breakdown, from which she recuperated in [[Uphill]], near [[Weston-super-Mare]]. She was induced to accept a £200 [[Annuity (financial contracts)|annuity]] from Turner as compensation. This freed her for literary pursuits. In the winter of 1773–1774, she went to London with her sisters, Sarah and Martha – the first of many such trips at yearly intervals. Some verses she had written on David Garrick's version of ''[[King Lear]]'' led to an acquaintance with him.{{sfn |Stephen |1894}}

She later moved to [[Bath, Somerset|Bath]], where she stayed between 1792 and 1802 on [[Great Pulteney Street]].<ref>{{Cite web |title=Bath-Heritage.co.uk |url=http://bath-heritage.co.uk/more.html |access-date=2022-07-21 |website=bath-heritage.co.uk}}</ref>

==Playwright==
More's first literary efforts were pastoral plays written while she was still teaching and suitable for young ladies to act. The first was ''The Search after Happiness'', written in 1762. By the mid-1780s, over 10,000 copies of this had been sold.<ref>S. J. Skedd, "More, Hannah (1745–1833)", ''[[Oxford Dictionary of National Biography]]'' ([[Oxford]]: [[Oxford University Press]], 2004).</ref> Among her literary models was [[Metastasio]], on whose opera ''Attilio Regulo'' she based a drama, ''The Inflexible Captive''.
[[File:Bluestockings3.jpg|thumb|left|280px|More (standing, left, as a personification of [[Melpomene]], muse of tragedy), in the company of other "[[bluestockings]]" (1778).]]

In London, More sought to associate with the literary elite, including [[Samuel Johnson]], [[Joshua Reynolds]] and [[Edmund Burke]]. Johnson is quoted as scolding her: "Madam, before you flatter a man so grossly to his face, you should consider whether or not your flattery is worth having." He would later be quoted as calling her "the finest [[Poetaster|versifatrix]] in the English language".<ref name=CrossleyEvans/> Meanwhile, she became prominent in the [[Bluestocking]] group of women engaged in polite conversation and literary and intellectual pursuits. She attended the salon of [[Elizabeth Montagu]], where she met [[Edward Boscawen#Frances Evelyn Boscawen|Frances Boscawen]], [[Elizabeth Carter]], [[Elizabeth Vesey]] and [[Hester Chapone]], some of whom would be lifelong friends. In 1782, she wrote a witty verse celebration of her friends and circle: ''The Bas Bleu, or, Conversation'', published in 1784.{{sfn |Stephen |1894}}

Garrick wrote a prologue and epilogue to Hannah More's tragedy ''[[Percy (play)|Percy]]'', which was successful at [[Royal Opera House|Covent Garden]] in December 1777 and revived in 1785 with [[Sarah Siddons]] at [[Theatre Royal, Drury Lane]]. A copy of ''Percy'' was found among [[Mozart]]'s possessions in 1791.<ref name=CrossleyEvans/> Another drama, ''[[The Fatal Falsehood]]'', produced in 1779 after Garrick's death, was less successful and she stopped writing for the stage. However, a tragedy entitled ''The Inflexible Captive'' appeared in 1818.<ref>Hannah More, 1818</ref> In 1781, she met [[Horace Walpole]] and corresponded with him. At Bristol she discovered the poet [[Ann Yearsley]]. When Yearsley became destitute, More raised a considerable sum of money for her benefit. Lactilla, as Yearsley was known, published ''Poems, on Several Occasions'' in 1785, earning about £600. More and Montagu held the profits in trust to protect them from Yearsley's husband. However, Ann Yearsley wished to receive the capital and made insinuations of stealing against More, forcing her to release it. These literary and social failures prompted More's withdrawal from London intellectual circles.{{sfn |Stephen |1894}}

==Evangelical moralist==
[[File:Figure (England), 1830–1836 (CH 18394481) (cropped).jpg|thumb|[[Biscuit porcelain]] figure by [[Mintons]], 1830s]]
In the 1780s, Hannah More became a friend of [[James Oglethorpe]], who had long been concerned with [[slavery]] as a moral issue and who was working with [[Granville Sharp]] as an early abolitionist.<ref>Thomas Wilson, ''The Oglethorpe Plan.'' Epilogue. Charlottesville, Va.: University of Virginia Press, 2012.</ref> More published ''Sacred Dramas'' in 1782, which rapidly ran through 19 editions. These and the poems ''Bas-Bleu'' and ''Florio'' (1786) mark a gradual transition to graver views, expressed in prose in ''Thoughts on the Importance of the Manners of the Great to General Society'' (1788) and ''An Estimate of the Religion of the Fashionable World'' (1790). By this time she was close to [[William Wilberforce]] and [[Zachary Macaulay]], sympathising with their evangelical views.{{sfn |Chisholm |1911 |p=821}} Her poem ''Slavery'' appeared in 1788. For many years she was a friend of [[Bishop Beilby Porteus|Beilby Porteus]], [[Bishop of London]] and a leading [[Abolitionism in the United Kingdom|abolitionist]], who drew her into a group of anti-slave traders that included Wilberforce, [[Charles Middleton, 1st Baron Barham|Charles Middleton]] and also [[James Ramsay (abolitionist)|James Ramsay]] at [[Teston]] in [[Kent]].

In 1785 More bought a house at Cowslip Green, near [[Wrington]] in northern [[Somerset]], where she settled with her sister Martha and wrote several ethical books and tracts: ''Strictures on the Modern System of Female Education'' (1799), ''Hints towards Forming the Character of a Young Princess'' (1805), ''[[Coelebs in Search of a Wife]]'' (only nominally a story, 1809), ''Practical Piety'' (1811), ''Christian Morals'' (1813), ''Character of St Paul'' (1815) and ''Moral Sketches'' (1819). She was a rapid writer. Her work, though discursive and animated, was deficient in form. Her popularity may be explained by her originality and forceful subject-matter.{{sfn |Chisholm |1911 |p=821}}

The outbreak of the [[French Revolution]] in 1789 did not worry More initially, but by 1790 she was writing, "I have conceived an utter aversion to liberty according to the present idea of it in France. What a cruel people they are!"{{sfn|Jones|1952|pp=134–135}} She praised [[Edmund Burke]]'s ''[[Reflections on the Revolution in France]]'' for combining "the rhetoric of ancient Gaul" and the "patriot spirit of ancient Rome" with "the deepest political sagacity".{{sfn|Jones|1952|p=135}} Part II of the ''[[Rights of Man]]'', [[Thomas Paine]]'s reply to Burke, appeared in 1792. The government was alarmed by its concern for the poor and call for world revolution, coupled with huge sales. Porteus visited More and asked her to write something for the lower orders to counteract Paine.{{sfn|Jones|1952|pp=133–134}} This prompted a pamphlet, ''Village Politics'' (1792). More called it "as vulgar as [the] heart can wish; but it is only designed for the most vulgar class of readers."{{sfn|Jones|1952|p=134}} The pamphlet (published pseudonymously as by "Will Chip") consists of a dialogue in plain English between Jack Anvil, a village blacksmith, and Tom Hood, a village mason. After reading Paine, Tom Hood expresses admiration for the French Revolution to Jack Anvil and speaks in favour of a new constitution based on liberty and the "rights of man". Jack Anvil responds by praising the British constitution, saying Britain already has "the best laws in the world". He attacks French liberty as murder, French democracy as tyranny of the majority, French equality as a levelling down of social classes, French philosophy as [[atheism]], and the "rights of man" as "battle, murder and sudden death". Tom Hood finally accepts Anvil's conclusion: "While old England is safe I'll glory in her, and pray for her; and when she is in danger I'll fight for her and die for her."{{sfn|Jones|1952|pp=135–136}}

More's biographer summed up the pamphlet against Paine as "Burke for Beginners".{{sfn|Jones|1952|p=134}} It was well received: Porteus called it "a masterpiece of its kind, supremely excellent, greatly admired at [[Windsor Castle|Windsor]]". [[Frances Boscawen]] thought it exceeded [[William Paley]]'s ''The British Public's Reasons for Contentment'' and [[Richard Owen Cambridge]] claimed "[[Jonathan Swift|Swift]] could not have done it better."{{sfn|Jones|1952|p=136}} More's next anti-Jacobin tract, ''Remarks on the Speech of M. Dupont'', condemned atheism in France. Its profits were passed to French Catholic priests exiled in England.{{sfn|Jones|1952|p=137}}

The two pamphlets attracted praise from the [[Association for the Discountenancing of Vice]], an evangelical publishing society founded in Dublin in 1792. The membership wrote to her in June 1793 congratulating her on it and inviting her to become an honorary member. Accepting, More asked the Association to send her "two or three printed papers explaining the nature of the Association as perhaps I may use them to advantage with a friend or two, distinguished for their piety and active zeal."<ref>Stoker, 2020, pp. 345–346.</ref>

===''Cheap Repository Tracts''===
In 1794, when Paine published ''[[The Age of Reason]]'', a [[deism|deist]] attack on Christianity, Porteus again requested More's help in combating Paine's ideas, but she declined, being preoccupied with her charity-school work.{{sfn|Jones|1952|p=137}} However, by the end of the year, More, encouraged by Porteus, decided to embark on a series of ''[[Cheap Repository Tracts]]'', three of which appeared every month from 1795 to 1798. In January 1795, More explained to Zachary Macaulay: "Vulgar and indecent penny books were always common, but speculative infidelity brought down to the pockets and capacity of the poor forms a new era in our history. This requires strong counteraction."{{sfn|Jones|1952|pp=140–141}} Her scheme developed from the ideas of the Association for discountenancing vice, though written in a more "readable and entertaining a style".<ref>Stoker, 2020, p. 347.</ref> The tracts sold 300,000 copies in March and April 1795, 700,000 by July 1795 and over two million by March 1796.{{sfn|Jones|1952|p=142}} They urged the poor to rely on virtues of contentment, sobriety, humility, industry, reverence for the British Constitution, hatred of the French, and trust in God and the kindness of the [[gentry]].{{sfn |Chisholm |1911 |p=821}} Perhaps the most famous is ''The [[Shepherd of Salisbury Plain]]'', describing a family of phenomenal frugality and contentment. This was translated into several languages. She also invited the Association for the Discountenancing of Vice to reprint her tracts in Ireland, which they did with success in more than 230 editions of 52 titles.<ref>Stoker, 2020, p. 343.</ref>

[[File:Hannahmoreblueplaque.JPG|thumb|upright=1.2|left|[[Blue plaque]] on the wall of Keepers Cottage, in [[Brislington]], [[Bristol]]]]
More was shocked by the strides made for female education in France: "They run to study philosophy, and neglect their families to be present at lectures in anatomy."<ref name=CrossleyEvans/>

==Views on schooling for poor and for girls==
[[File:Residence Hannah More 1872.jpg|thumb|Residence Hannah More in 1872]]
Intending "to escape from the world gradually",<ref name=CrossleyEvans/> More moved in 1802 to [[Wrington]] in rural [[Somerset]], where she had built a comfortable house and laid out a garden.<ref name="Stephen"/> She remained, however, active with several Somerset schools for the destitute that she and her sister Martha had founded from the 1780s, with Wilberforce's encouragement.<ref>{{Cite book |last1=Coysh |first1=A.W. |last2=Mason |first2=E.J. |last3=Waite |first3=V. |title=The Mendips |year=1977 |publisher=Robert Hale Ltd |location=London |isbn=0-7091-6426-2}}</ref> She modelled the idealised hero and heroine in ''Coelebs in Search of Wife'' (1809) on the schools' prodigious benefactors: [[John Scandrett Harford|John and Louisa Harford]] of [[Blaise Castle]].<ref name=CrossleyEvans/>

The schools taught the Bible and the catechism on Sundays and during the week taught "such coarse works as may fit them for servants". In regards to her choice of subjects More declared "I allow of no writing for the poor" and that they were not to be made "scholars and philosophers".<ref name="Stephen">{{Cite web |last1=Stephen |first1=Leslie |title=Hannah More (1745-1833) [1894] |url=http://www.historyhome.co.uk/people/more-h.htm |website=A Web of English History |publisher=Marjorie Bloy |access-date=6 November 2020}}</ref> There was local opposition: [[Church of England]] vicars suspected her of advancing [[Methodism]]<ref name="Stephen"/> and some landowners saw even rudimentary literacy as a step above the children's proper station.<ref name="Rigby">{{Cite news |last1=Rigby |first1=Malcolm |title=Malcolm Rigby investigates the life of Hannah More, probably Somerset's most influential woman |work=SomersetLife |date=26 January 2010}}</ref> At [[Wedmore]], the [[Dean of Wells]] was petitioned to have More removed from the school.<ref name=CrossleyEvans/>

To the [[Bishop of Bath and Wells]] she protested that her schools taught only "such coarse works as may fit them [their charges] for servants. I allow no writing for the poor. My object is... to train up the lower classes in habits of industry and piety."<ref>{{Cite book |last=Roberts |first=William |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=mRhIAAAAIAAJ |title=Life and Correspondence of Hannah More, Vol. III |publisher=R. B. Skelley and W. Burnside |year=1835 |location=London |pages=133}}</ref>

More refused to read [[Mary Wollstonecraft]]'s ''[[A Vindication of the Rights of Women|Vindication of the Rights of Women]]'' (1792). While many women may be "fond of government", they are not, she believed, "fit for it": "To be unstable and capricious is but too characteristic of our sex." More turned down honorary membership of the [[Royal Society of Literature]], seeing her "sex alone a disqualification".<ref name=CrossleyEvans/>{{page needed|date=November 2021}}

Having met Hannah More and her sisters in [[Bath, Somerset|Bath]] and discussed their schools and other good works, [[Jane Greg]] reported to a friend, [[Martha McTier]] in [[Belfast]], that she found their "minds crippled in an astonishing degree".<ref>{{Cite book |last1=McNeill |first1=Mary |title=The Life and Times of Mary Ann McCracken, 1770–1866 |date=1960 |publisher=Allen Figgis & Co |location=Dublin |pages=110–111}}</ref> McTier was proud that in her school for poor girls her pupils "do not gabble over the testament only" and that she had those who "can read [[Charles James Fox|Fox]] and [[William Pitt, 1st Earl of Chatham|Pitt]]".<ref>Martha McTier to William Drennan, 17 January 1795, in Jean Agnew (ed.), ''Drennan-Mc Tier Letters'', vol. 2, Irish Manuscripts Commission 1999, p. 121.</ref>

In 1820, More donated money to [[Philander Chase]], the first [[Episcopal Diocese of Ohio|Episcopal Bishop of Ohio]] for the foundation there of [[Kenyon College]]. A portrait of More hangs in its Peirce Hall.<ref>Kenyon Hall site: http://www.kenyon.edu/x22810.xml [Retrieved 28 March 2012.] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130411195327/http://www.kenyon.edu/x22810.xml |date=11 April 2013}}</ref>

==Last years==
[[File:Tomb Hannah More 1872.jpg|thumb|left|Tomb Hannah More 1872|189x189px]]
[[File:Hannah Moore educator - panoramio.jpg|thumb|right|Bust of More in All Saints, Wrington]]
In Hannah More's last years, philanthropists from all parts made pilgrimages to Wrington, and after 1828 to [[Clifton, Bristol|Clifton]], where she died on 7 September 1833.{{sfn |Chisholm |1911 |p=822}} More left about £30,000, chiefly in legacies to charitable institutions and religious societies. The residue was to go to a new Church of St Philip and St Jacob in Bristol. She was buried beside her sisters at the [[Church of All Saints, Wrington]], which has a bust of her in the south porch, beside one of the local son [[John Locke]].<ref name="Stephen"/>

==Legacy==
Several local schools are named after More. Hannah More Primary School was built in Bristol Old Market in the 1840s.<ref name=CrossleyEvans/> Her image appeared in 2012 on the [[Bristol Pound]], a local currency.<ref name="DW Sept 2012">{{Cite news |last=Gosling |first=Emily |title=Bristol launches local currency |url=http://www.designweek.co.uk/news/bristol-launches-local-currency/3035268.article |access-date=26 September 2012 |newspaper=[[Design Week]] |date=19 September 2012}}</ref> Wringdon has named a local street the Hannah More Close. The [[Hannah More Academy]] and [[St. Michael's Church (Reisterstown, Maryland)|St. Michael's Church]], both in Reisterstown, Maryland, in the United States, are named after More.

However, the [[Liberal Party (UK)|Liberal]] politician [[Augustine Birrell]], in his 1906 work ''Hannah More Once More'', claimed to have buried all 19 volumes of More's works in his garden in disgust.<ref name=CrossleyEvans/>

===Veneration===
In 2022, More was officially added to the [[Calendar of saints (Episcopal Church)|Episcopal Church liturgical calendar]] with a feast day on 6 September.<ref>{{Cite web |title=General Convention Virtual Binder |url=https://www.vbinder.net/resolutions/24?house=HD&lang=en |access-date=2022-07-22 |website=www.vbinder.net |archive-date=13 September 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220913143652/https://www.vbinder.net/resolutions/24?house=HD&lang=en |url-status=dead }}</ref>

==Archives==
Letters to, from and about Hannah More are held by [[Bristol Archives]], including one from [[William Wilberforce]] (Ref. 28048/C/1/2) ([http://archives.bristol.gov.uk/Record.aspx?src=CalmView.Catalog&id=28048%2fC%2f1%2f2&pos=1 online catalogue]).
Records relating to Hannah More appear at the [[British Library#Collections of manuscripts|British Library, Manuscript Collections]],<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/rd/N13652528 |title=National Archives Discovery catalogue page, British Library Manuscript Collections |access-date=1 March 2016}}</ref> [[Longleat]],<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/rd/N13780182 |title=National Archives Discovery catalogue page, Longleat |access-date=1 March 2016}}</ref> [[Newport Central Library]],<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/rd/N13960109 |title=National Archives Discovery catalogue page, Newport Central Library |access-date=1 March 2016}}</ref> the [[Bodleian Library]],<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/rd/N13861532 |title= National Archives Discovery catalogue page, Bodleian Library |access-date=1 March 2016}}</ref> [[St John's College, Cambridge#The College Library|Cambridge University: St John's College Library]],<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/rd/N13935798 |title=National Archives Discovery catalogue page, St John's College Library, Cambridge |access-date=1 March 2016}}</ref> the [[Victoria and Albert Museum]],<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/rd/N13846862 |title=National Archives Discovery catalogue page, National Art Library, Victoria & Albert Museum |access-date=1 March 2016}}</ref> [[Bristol Central Library|Bristol Reference Library]],<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/rd/N13702770 |title=National Archives Discovery catalogue page, Bristol Reference Library |access-date=1 March 2016}}</ref> [[Cambridge University Library]],<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/rd/N13559445 |title=National Archives Discovery catalogue page, Cambridge University Library: Department of Manuscripts and University Archives |access-date=1 March 2016}}</ref> [[Women's Library|The Women's Library]],<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/rd/N13840168 |title=National Archives Discovery catalogue page, London School of Economics: The Women's Library |access-date=1 March 2016}}</ref> [[Gloucestershire Archives]],<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/rd/N13773680 |title=National Archives Discovery catalogue page, Gloucestershire Archives |access-date=1 March 2016}}</ref> and [[Merseyside Maritime Museum|National Museums Liverpool: Maritime Archives and Library]].<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/rd/N13644835 |title=National Archives Discovery catalogue page, National Museums Liverpool: Maritime Archives and Library |access-date=1 March 2016}}</ref>

==Selected works==
:''Source: [https://victorianweb.org/authors/more/works.html victorianweb.org]''

{{div col}}
* ''The Search After Happiness'', 1773
* ''The Inflexible Captive'', 1774
* ''Sir Eldred of the Bower and the Bleeding Rock'', 1776
* ''Essays on Various Subjects'', 1777
* ''Percy: A Tragedy'', 1777
* ''Sacred Dramas and Sensibility: A Poem'', 1782
* ''Florio'', 1786
* ''The Bas Bleu'', 1786
* ''Slavery: A Poem'', 1788
* ''Thoughts on the Importance of the Manners of the Great to General Society'', 1788
* ''Bishop Bonner's Ghost'', 1789.
* ''An Estimate of the Religion of the Fashionable World'', 1791
* ''Village Politics'', 1793
* ''Remarks on the Speech of M. Dupont'', 1793
* ''Cheap Repository Tracts'', 1795-98.
* ''Strictures on the Modern System of Female Education'', 1799
* "The White Slave Trade" published in the ''Christian Observer'', 1799
* ''Hints towards Forming the Character of a Young Princess'', 1805
* ''Coelebs in Search of a Wife'', 1808
* ''Practical Piety'', 1811
* ''Christian Morals'', 1813
* ''Essay on the Character and Writings of St Paul'', 1815
* ''Cheap Repository Tracts Suited to the Present Times'', 1819
* ''Moral Sketches'', 1819
* ''The Twelfth of August, or The Feast of Freedom'', 1819
* "Queen Caroline affair", 1820
* ''Bible Rhymes'', 1821
* ''The Spirit of Prayer'', 1825
{{div col end}}

==References==
{{reflist}}

==Sources==
*{{EB1911 |wstitle=More, Hannah|volume=18|pages=821–822}}
*{{Cite DNB |first=Leslie |last=Stephen |wstitle=More, Hannah |volume=38 |pages=414–420}}
*{{cite book |last1=Jones |first1=M. G. |title=Hannah More |date=1952 |publisher=Cambridge University Press}}

==Resources==
===Primary sources===
*Hannah More, ''Works of Hannah More'', 2 vols. New York: Harper, 1840

===Biographies===
*Anna Jane Buckland, ''The life of Hannah More. A lady of two centuries''. London: Religious Tract Society, 1882, [https://archive.org/details/lifeofhannahmore00buck]
*Jeremy and Margaret Collingwood, ''Hannah More''. Oxford: Lion Publishing, 1990, {{ISBN|0-7459-1532-9}}
*[https://archive.org/details/bha099 Crossley Evans, Martin, ''Hannah More''. Bristol Historical Association pamphlets, no. 99, 1999, 32 pp.]
*Patricia Demers, ''The World of Hannah More''. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1996, {{ISBN|0-8131-1978-2}}
*Charles Howard Ford, ''Hannah More: A Critical Biography''. New York: Peter Lang, 1996, {{ISBN|0-8204-2798-5}}
*Marion Harland, ''Hannah More''. New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1900
*Mary Alen Hopkins, ''Hannah More and Her Circle''. London: Longmans, 1947
*M. G. Jones, ''Hannah More'' Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1952
*Helen C. Knight, ''Hannah More; or, Life in Hall and Cottage''. New York: M. W. Dodd, 1851
*Elizabeth Kowaleski-Wallace, ''Their Fathers' Daughters: Hannah More, Maria Edgeworth, and Patriarchal Complicity''. New York: Oxford University Press, 1991
*Annette Mary Budgett Meakin, ''Hannah More: A Biographical Study''. London: John Murray, 1919
*Karen Swallow Prior, ''Fierce Convictions: The Extraordinary Life of Hannah More—Poet, Reformer, Abolitionist''. Nashville: Nelson Books, 2014, {{ISBN|978-1-4002-0625-4}}
*[[William Roberts (biographer)|William Roberts]], ed., ''Memoirs of Mrs Hannah More''. New York: Harper & Bros., 1836
*Anne Stott, ''Hannah More: The First Victorian''. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003, {{ISBN|0-19-924532-0}}
*Thomas Taylor, ''Memoir of Mrs. Hannah More''. London: Joseph Rickerby, 1838
*Henry Thompson, ''The Life of Hannah More With Notices of Her Sisters''. London: T. Cadell, 1838
*[[Charlotte Mary Yonge|Charlotte Yonge]], ''Hannah More''. Boston: Roberts Brothers, 1888

===Other sources===
*{{Cite journal |doi=10.1080/08905499508583421 |last1=Elliott |first1=Dorice Williams |year=1995 |title=The Care of the Poor Is Her Profession: Hannah More and Women's Philanthropic Work|journal=Nineteenth-Century Contexts |volume=19 |issue=2 |pages=179–204|hdl=1808/20908 |hdl-access=free}}
*{{cite book |last1=Ingham |first1=Arleen M. |title=Women And Spirituality In The Writing Of More, Wollstonecraft, Stanton, And Eddy |date=2010 |publisher=Palgrave Macmillan |location=New York |isbn=978-0-230-10259-0 |url=https://archive.org/details/womenspiritualit0000ingh/}}
*{{Cite journal |last1=Kelly |first1=Gary |year=1987 |title=Revolution, Reaction, and the Expropriation of Popular Culture: Hannah More's ''Cheap Repository'' |journal=Man and Nature |volume=6 |pages=147–59 |doi=10.7202/1011875ar |doi-access=free }}
*Jacqueline McMillan, "Hannah More: From Versificatrix to Saint", ''In Her Hand: Letters of Romantic-Era British Women Writers in New Zealand Collections.'' Otago Students of Letters. Dunedin, New Zealand: University of Otago, Department of English, 2013. pp.&nbsp;23–46. Includes five letters and a poem, hitherto unpublished.
*Mitzi Myers, "Hannah More's Tracts for the Times: Social Fiction and Female Ideology", ''Fetter'd or Free? British Women Novelists, 1670–1815''. Mary Anne Schofield and Cecilia Macheski, eds. Athens: Ohio University Press, 1986
*{{Cite journal |last1=Myers |first1=Mitzi |year=1982 |title=Reform or Ruin: 'A Revolution in Female Manners' |journal=Studies in Eighteenth-Century Culture |volume=11 |pages=199–216|doi=10.1353/sec.1982.0012|s2cid=258005340 }}
*{{Cite journal |doi=10.1080/09612020100200571 |last1=Nardin |first1=Jane |year=2001 |title=Hannah More and the Rhetoric of Educational Reform |journal=[[Women's History Review]] |volume=10 |issue=2 |pages=211–27|doi-access=free }}
*{{Cite journal |doi=10.1353/tsl.2001.0015 |last1=Nardin |first1=Jane |year=2001 |title=Hannah More and the Problem of Poverty |journal= Texas Studies in Literature and Language|volume=43 |issue=3 |pages=267–84|s2cid=162100269}}
*{{Cite journal |last1=Pickering |first1=Samuel |year=1977 |title=Hannah More's ''Coelebs in Search of a Wife'' and the Respectability of the Novel in the Nineteenth Century |journal=Neuphilologische Mitteilungen |volume=78 |pages=78–85}}
*Mona Scheuerman, ''In Praise of Poverty: Hannah More Counters Thomas Paine and the Radical Threat''. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2002
*{{Cite journal |last1=Stoker |first1=David |year=2020 |title= The Watson family, the Association for the Discountenancing of Vice and the Irish Cheap Repository Tracts |journal=The Library: Transactions of the Bibliographical Society | series=7 |volume=21 |pages=343–384}}
*Kathryn Sutherland, "Hannah More's Counter-Revolutionary Feminism", ''Revolution in Writing: British Literary Responses to the French Revolution''. Kelvin Everest, ed. Milton Keynes: Open University Press, 1991
*{{Cite journal |last1=Vallone |first1=Lynne |year=1991 |title='A Humble Spirit under Correction': Tracts, Hymns, and the Ideology of Evangelical Fiction for Children, 1780–1820 |journal=The Lion and the Unicorn |volume=15 |issue=2 |pages=72–95 |doi=10.1353/uni.0.0155|s2cid=143540425}}
*[http://www.graat.fr/krouboread3%5B1%5D.pdf A Comparative Study of Three Anti-Slavery Poems Written by William Blake, Hannah More and Marcus Garvey: Black Stereotyping] by Jérémie Kroubo Dagnini for GRAAT On-Line, January 2010

===Archives===
* Papers of Hannah More are held at [[The Women's Library]] in the Library of the [[London School of Economics]]. ([https://twl-calm.library.lse.ac.uk/Record.aspx?src=CalmView.Catalog&id=9%2f16%2f01&pos=4 Link])

==External links==
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*[http://www.eighteenthcenturypoetry.org/authors/pers00274.shtml Hannah More] at the [http://www.eighteenthcenturypoetry.org/ Eighteenth-Century Poetry Archive (ECPA)]
*{{Gutenberg author |id=5807 |name=Hannah More}}
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*[https://www.torontopubliclibrary.ca/search.jsp?Erp=20&N=38537+38533+37906+33399+4294887271&view=grid Works by Hannah More] at Osborne Collection of Early Children's Books ([[Toronto Public Library]])
*{{Internet Archive author |sname=Hannah More}}
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*[http://www.brycchancarey.com/abolition/more.htm Hannah More from Brycchan Carey's listing of British abolitionists]
*[[wikisource:Slavery, a poem|The full text of ''Slavery, A Poem'' available online]]
*[http://www.brycchancarey.com/slavery/yamba.htm The full text of ''The Sorrows of Yamba'' available online]
*[http://abolition.e2bn.org/source_24.html Original 1797 edition of a printed pamphlet of ''The Sorrows of Yamba''] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081007161610/http://abolition.e2bn.org/source_24.html |date=7 October 2008 }}
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