Hannah More
The First Victorian
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 16 September 2004
- ISBN 9780199274888
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages420 pages
- Size 234x157x24 mm
- Weight 651 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 12pp halftone plates, 2 maps 0
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Short description:
Hannah More was a public figure at a time when domesticity was regarded as women's chief virtue. Her career as playwright, bluestocking, Evangelical educationalist, anti-slavery campaigner, political writer, and novelist made her one of the most influential women of her day. This is the first full-length biography of More for fifty years and the first to make extensive use of her unpublished correspondence. Anne Stott reveals her as a more lively and attractive character than previous stereotypes have suggested. She demonstrates that More was a complex and contradictory figure: a conservative who was accused of political and religious subversion, an ostensible antifeminist who opened up new opportunities for female activism.
MoreLong description:
Hannah More (1745-1833), the daughter of an obscure schoolmaster, began her working life as a teacher at her sisters' school in Bristol. In her thirtieth year she came to London to persuade the actor-manager David Garrick to put on one of her plays. Her subsequent career as playwright, bluestocking, Evangelical reformer, political writer, and novelist turned her into one of the most influential women of her day. Few of either sex could rival the range of her achievements.
This book is the first full-length biography of More for fifty years and the first to make extensive use of her unpublished correspondence. The new material shows her to have been a more lively and attractive character than previous stereotypes have suggested. It also reinforces the growing perception that she was a complex and contradictory figure: a conservative who was accused of political and religious subversion, an ostensible antifeminist who opened up new opportunities for female activism.
Recent work on the Georgian period indicates that, in spite of their exclusion from formal power, women played a vital role in the ordering of politics and society. The remarkable career of Hannah More adds weight to the argument that women (notwithstanding the repressive rhetoric of the conduct books) were increasingly active outside the allegedly private sphere of the home.
More's long life began just before the last Jacobite rising, and ended at the dawn of the railway age. This book argues that she should be viewed as essentially forward-looking. When one of her early biographers dedicated his book to the young Queen Victoria, it was a fitting tribute to More's significance. In her energetic campaigning, her moral fervour, her belief in Britain's providential destiny, Hannah More anticipated many of the characteristics of Victorianism. She was one of the creators of the new age.
Anne Stott's biography manages tp provide a remarkably entertaining and readable account ... packed full of anecdote and fascinating historical insights.
Table of Contents:
Bristol Beginnings 1745-1774
The Garrick Years 1774-1779
Living Muse 1780-1785
Zion's City 1780-1789
The Mendip Schools 1789-1795
Revolution and Counter-Revolution 1789-1793
The Greeks and the Barbarians 1794-1798
The Cheap Repository Tracts 1795-1798
The Emergence of Clapham 1795-1799
Praise and Opposition 1798-1799
The Blagdon Controversy 1799-1803
The Princess and the Bachelor 1801-c.1809
High Priestess 1809-1816
'Loyal and Anti-Radical female' 1816-1833
Conclusion
Chronology of Hannah More's Life and Writings
Bibliography
Index
