In praise of poverty
Subtitle: Hannah More counters Thomas Paine and the radical threat
By: Mona Scheuermann.
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
Published: 2002
Place of publication: Lexington
Language: eng
Number of pages: 255
Subjects: More, Hannah, 1745-1833 -- Political and social views.; Paine, Thomas, 1737-1809.; Conservatism -- Great Britain -- History -- 18th century.; Conservatism -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century.; Radicalism -- Great Britain.; Poverty -- Great Britain.; Poor -- Great Britain.
Description: "Hannah More was seen in her own time as a woman of great benevolence a selfless benefactor of the poor working to educate and help them in their poverty. Modern criticism defines More in much the same terms.".

"In Praise of Poverty, by Mona Scheuermann, reinterprets More's writing to the poor, demonstrating that her message was designed to teach them that they should be happy in their poverty and that, except in specific cases such as apprentices who worked their way into a business of their own, the poor should be content with their lot in life. To express discontent would be to challenge a social hierarchy created by God."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [229]-247) and index.
Table of contents: title: Conservative contexts: Joseph Townsend's dissertation on the poor laws; title: Radical contexts: Thomas Paine's Rights of man; title: "The pen that might work wonders": the correspondence of Hannah More; title: Two sides of a question: Hannah More's village politics and Josiah Wedgwood's address to the young inhabitants of the pottery; title: Social and political circumstances: More's cheap repository tracts; title: Economic circumstances : More's cheap repository tracts; title: Conclusion. the power of the printed word: Hannah More and Mary Wollstonecraft on reading.