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Hannah More : the first Victorian / Anne Stott.
LIBRA PR3605.M6 S76 2003
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Stott, Anne.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- More, Hannah.
- Women authors, English--18th century.
- Women authors, English.
- Women authors, English--19th century.
- Authors, English--18th century--Biography.
- Authors, English.
- Women educators.
- England.
- Authors, English--19th century--Biography.
- Women educators--England--Biography.
- Educators--England--Biography.
- Educators.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Physical Description:
- xxi, 384 pages, 12 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2003.
- Summary:
- 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 This is the first substantial biography of More for fifty years and the first to make extensive use of her unpublished correspondence.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.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [339]-365) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0199245320
- OCLC:
- 50999462
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