Hannah More

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Hannah More (February 1745-7 September 1833) was an English religious writer and philanthropist who was remembered as a writer on moral and religious topics as well as a practical philanthropist.

Born in Bristol, she worked at a school that had been established there by her father and began writing plays.

She became a leading Bluestocking contributor to the London literary elite as a leader.

Her plays and poetry became more popular, and she became a member of a resistance group battling the slave trade.

She wrote several Cheap Repository Tracts on moral, religi, and political topics in the 1790s for distribution to the literate poor.

During the meantime, she did increasing philanthropic work in the Mendip area, which was influenced by William Wilberforce.

Early life

Hannah More, the fourth of five daughters of Jacob More (1700–1783), a schoolmaster from a strong Presbyterian family in Harleston, Norfolk, who had joined the Church of England, was born in 1745 at Fishponds in the parish of Stapleton, near Bristol. He wanted to go to Bristol, but after losing a case over an estate he had hoped to inherit, he moved to Bristol, where he became an excise officer and later taught at the Fishponds free school.

The sisters were first educated by their father, who taught Latin and mathematics. Hannah was also taught by elder sisters, through whom she learned French, and by spending time with French prisoners of war in Frenchay during the Seven Years' War. She was an assiduous, discerning student. She began writing at an early age, according to a family's line.

In 1758, Jacob founded a girls' boarding school on Trinity Street, Bristol, for the elder sisters, Mary and Elizabeth, to run, while his wife moved to Stony Hill, Bristol, to open a boys' academy. Hannah More started attending the girls' school at the age of twelve and was taught there in early adulthood.

More than a hundred more students dropped out after learning how to William Turner of the Belmont Estate in Wraxall, Somerset, whom she had met when she first began teaching her cousins. The wedding had not taken place for six years before. Turner was reluctant to specify a date, but the affair was called off in 1773. More likely this culminated in a nervous breakdown, which she recovered in Uphill, near Weston-super-Mare. Turner was compelled to pay her a £200 annuity as compensation. She was also given the opportunity to pursue literary pursuits as a result of her visit to the beach. Sarah and Martha's first trip to London in the winter of 1773-1774 was the first of many such trips at yearly intervals. Some verses she had written about King Lear's interpretation of King Lear led to an acquaintance with him.

She then moved to Bath, where she remained on Great Pulteney Street from 1792 to 1802.

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