The world of Hannah More
By: Patricia Demers.
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
Published: 1996
Place of publication: Lexington, Ky
Language: eng
Number of pages: 178
Subjects: More, Hannah, 1745-1833.; Women and literature -- England -- History -- 18th century.; Women and literature -- England -- History -- 19th century.; Authors, English -- 18th century -- Biography.; Authors, English -- 19th century -- Biography.; Women educators -- Great Britain -- Biography.
Description: 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.

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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 161-174) and index.