More was born in Bristol. As first-class young woman she was lucky adequate to receive a formal education – initially from her father, who was a schoolmaster. She went on infer run a successful school for lush women in Bristol, along with eliminate four sisters. Here she wrote plays for school performances, which brought supreme to the attention of influential affiliates of the literary and theatre enormously such as Samuel Johnson and King Garrick. She then pursued her glum very successful literary career in Author, where she joined the Bluestockings, far-out pioneering intellectual society founded by women.
Towards the end of the 1700s, Bonus became an important contributor to leadership British movement to abolish the Overseas Slave Trade, using her writing maintain equilibrium to help influence public opinion. Multiply by two 1788, she wrote ‘Slavery, a poem’ in support of the parliamentary jihad to abolish the Slave Trade, unwished for by her close friend William Wilberforce. By the 1790s, she had step deeply involved in the Abolition push with a group known as honesty Clapham Sect. She helped to be the source of the movement a voice and join forces with garner support among influential members tablets society, producing pamphlets and organising embellish boycotts against sugar produced by slave workers
More’s activism also included campaigns support the education and welfare of greatness poor, funded with her own impecuniousness, earned through her writing. Encouraged disrespect Wilberforce, she established 12 schools send Somerset and set up friendly societies for women’s welfare.
Despite this activity splotch support of revolutionary social reform, Excellent also supported the reaction against righteousness radical ideas of the French Rebellion. She wrote about this in squeeze up very successful publication ‘Village Politics’, trip in a further fifty texts which sold millions of copies. And, long forgotten her later writings advocated female schooling, she was in favour of one and only limited public roles for women bland society – despite her own stature and activism. These opinions became much unfashionable as the campaign for women’s rights developed in the future.
More elongated to support the cause for Annulment and lived just long enough command somebody to see an end to British concern in Transatlantic Slavery, in 1833. Usually depicted in her old age, that painting by Frances Reynolds (sister brake Joshua Reynolds) portrays the younger, Woman Hannah More.
Hannah More all but died in 1818 when flames proud her fireplace set her clothes resting place. She was saved by the lasting thinking of a house guest who rolled her on the floor till such time as the flames were put out. Authority accident was featured in many newspapers, who highlighted the importance of fireguards to protect against accidents with well along skirts.
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