Hannah More (and philanthropic sociability) [ Religion & Philanthropy / Politics & Society / Religious Belief ]
… the contours of a Victorian one: ‘she was part of the new Puritanism steadily gaining ground in the wake of the French Revolution which urged women to turn their backs on the allurements of the ball and the pleasure garden and find their … spectrum, radicals like William Cobbett who dubbed her ‘the old bishop in petticoats’ ( ODNB ) and the supporters of the French Revolution saw More’s philanthropic sociability as reactionary. 14 14 . Her quarrel with the Bristol poetess Ann …
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