Fierce Convictions
The Extraordinary Life of Hannah More? Poet, Reformer, Abolitionist
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November 15, 2014
Author Prior fills a gap in women's studies by offering up her highly researched and entertaining biography of the multitalented and fiercely smart British writer, abolitionist, and evangelist Hannah More (17451833). In a time when women were rarely educated in anything other than domestic arts, More and her sisters started schools for girls and the poor that educated them in the types of knowledge typically reserved for males and the wealthy. More herself was a firebrandseeking able and useful helpmates (e.g., Horace Walpole, Samuel Johnson) in achieving her aims. In addition to working to abolish slavery, she wrote controversial plays, poetry, and more, never marrying but having instead, as Virginia Woolf would later say, a room of her own, which gave her the freedom to promote her causes. Prior's extensive research includes contemporaneous biographies of More, which often softened or misreported; the result is a fascinating portrait of an unusual, tenacious, and caring womanwho lived through the American, French, and Industrial Revolutionsfor whom expanding the moral imagination through her words was her life's work. (Reprinted with permission of Booklist, copyright 2014, American Library Association.)
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