Fierce Convictions
Subtitle: the extraordinary life of Hannah More : poet, reformer, abolitionist
Publisher: Nelson Books, an imprint of Thomas Nelson
Published: 2014
Place of publication: Nashville, TN
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 320
ISBN-13: 9781400206254
Description: "With a foreword by Eric Metaxas, best-selling author of Bonhoeffer and Amazing Grace.The enthralling biography of the womanwriter who helped end the slave trade, changed Britain's upper classes, and taught a nation how to read. The history-changing reforms of Hannah More affected every level of 18th-CenturyBritish society through her keen intellect, literary achievements,collaborative spirit, strong Christian principles, and colorful personality. A woman without connections or status, More took the world of British letters by storm when she arrived in London from Bristol, becoming a best-selling author and acclaimed playwright and quickly befriending the author Samuel Johnson, the politician Horace Walpole, and the actor David Garrick. Yet she was also aleader in the Evangelical movement, using her cultural position and her pen to support the growth of education for the poor, the reform of morals and manners,and the abolition of Britain's slave trade; Fierce Convictions weaves together world and personal history into a stirring story of life that intersected with Wesley and Whitefield's GreatAwakening, the rise and influence of Evangelicalism, and convulsive effects ofthe French Revolution. A woman of exceptional intellectual gifts and literarytalent, Hannah More was above all a person whose faith compelled her both to engageher culture and to transform it"--
Table of contents: title: Foreword / Eric Metaxas; title: Preface; title: A bright imagination; title: A school of sisters; title: The road to singledom; title: The making of a female pen; title: London at last; title: Learned ladies; title: All that glistens is not gold; title: Faith to see; title: The labor for liberty; title: Teaching the nation to read; title: An ample table; title: Burdened for the beasts; title: Reform, not revolution; title: An imagination that moved the world; title: We shall be equal; title: Epilogue; title: Notes; title: About the author