Hannah More (British edition 1888)

by Charlotte Mary Yonge

 

Eminent Women Series

EDITED BY JOHN H. INGRAM

 

HANNAH MORE

 

 

HANNAH MORE

 

BY

CHARLOTTE M. YONGE

 

LONDON:
W. H. ALLEN & CO., 13 WATERLOO PLACE, S.W.

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1888.

LONDON:
PRINTED BY W. H. ALLEN AND CO., 13 WATERLOO PLACE, S. W.

PRINCIPAL AUTHORITIES.

Memoirs and Correspondence of Mrs. Hannah More. William Roberts. 1834.
Life of Hannah More. Anna J. Buckland. 1883.
Memoir of Mrs. Hannah More. (Fisher.)
Mendip Annals, Journal of Martha More. A. Roberts. 1879.
Works of Hannah More, 11 vols. 1830.
Life of William Wilberforce. By his Sons. 1839.
Life of Lord Macaulay. G. O. Trevelyan. 1876.
Diocesan History of Bath and Wells. Rev. W. Hunt. 1885.
Life of Johnson. James Boswell. 1778.
Life of David Garrick. A. Murphy. 1801.

 

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CONTENTS.

CHAPTER I.

page

Stapylton ....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

1

CHAPTER II.

Bristol ....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

6

CHAPTER III.

The London World ....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

13

CHAPTER IV.

Hannah as a Poetess ....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

22

CHAPTER V.

Literary Life ....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

37

CHAPTER VI.

The Bas Bleu and the Bas Blanc ....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

52

CHAPTER VII.

Cowslip Green ....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

65

CHAPTER VIII.

Cheddar ....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

78

CHAPTER IX.

The Mendip Mining Districts ....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

91

CHAPTER X.

Anti-Revolutionary Work ....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

101

CHAPTER XI.

The Cheap Repository Tracts ....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

110

CHAPTER XII.

The Blagdon Persecution ....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

123

CHAPTER XIII.

Barley Wood ....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

140

CHAPTER XIV.

Sorrows ....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

158

CHAPTER XV.

Solitude ....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

174

CHAPTER XVI.

Clifton ....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

194

 

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