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Hannah More
Who was she?
Early life
Not born into wealth, Born in Bristol in 1795. Her father was a school master and taught her and her sisters
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Marriage
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Marriage called of 3 times - 3rd time she vowed to never marry - Turner feeling guilty gave her £200 a year
Did make her financially independent but she did succumb to the patriarchal society as she was dependent on him for the money which made her financially independent
Her career
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Helps other female writers - Anna Yearsley - she was very poor and had an abusive husband but very talented poet - she got her published but instead of giving Anna the money she feared her husband would just use it so she kept it - elitim
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Other Beliefs
Morality
Using Evangelical influence - using the Evangelical calendar - established Sunday Schools in Bristol educating more than 1000 people per yer
Wrote cheap repository tracts for the working class with the common themes of ridiculing revolutionary ideas, defending the established order, uphold Christian morality - trying to uphold social order
Tried to reform the morals of the aristocracy - saying they were too 'French' - thought that if they were reformed to more moral it would inspire everyone else to be more moral
Loyalism
'Association for Preserving Liberty and Property Against Republicans and Levellers' formed Nov. 1972
Women
Educated women - she believed that if she taught them they could be better at their domestic duties - less sexually promiscuous and become more moral
Wrote a lot of essays on the education of women - hinted toward the character forming of the young Princess Charlotte in 1805
Abolitionism
More was acquainted with leading abolitionists Charles Middleton, John Newton, Thomas Clarkson, Granvil Sharp and William Wilberforce
More fought for the abolition of slavery, wrote poem 'Slavery' in 1788
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