Hannah More (and philanthropic sociability) [ Religion & Philanthropy / Politics & Society / Religious Belief ]
… of a play, The Search after Happiness , which, first published locally, was republished in London where it won her public recognition. 1 There, thanks to her friends’ letters of introduction, she rubbed shoulders with the literati of … simultaneously condemns what More sees as the excesses of Georgian sociability – Sunday concerts, Sunday walks in public gardens, the blurring of the frontier between right and wrong in polite conversation ( Thoughts 53) 11 – and …
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