Hannah More
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Hannah More was an English writer, philanthropist, poet and verse dramatist. She was active the circles of Samuel Johnson, Joshua Reynolds and David Garrick and wrote on moral and religious subjects.
Portrait by Henry William Pickersgill, 1821
The birthplace of Hannah More on Manor Road, Fishponds
1778 painting of the Blue Stockings Society showing More standing second from right
Biscuit porcelain figure by Mintons, 1830s
Bluestocking
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Bluestocking is a term for an educated, intellectual woman, originally a member of the 18th-century Blue Stockings Society from England led by the hostess and critic Elizabeth Montagu, the "Queen of t
Hannah More
…Bristol, she taught at a school her father founded there and began writing plays. She became involved in the London literary elite, and she was a leading Bluestocking member. Her later plays and poetry became more evangelical. She joined the Clapham Sect, a group opposing the Atlantic slave trade. In the 1790s, More…
1815 caricature of bluestockings by Thomas Rowlandson