Title: The world of Hannah More
First published: 1996
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.
Subjects: Authors, English, Biography, English Authors, History, Women and literature, Women educators, More, hannah, 1745-1833, English Women authors
Places: England, Great Britain
People: Hannah More (1745-1833)
Time periods: 18th century, 19th century
LC classification: PR3605.M6 D46 1996