Hannah More (and philanthropic sociability) [ Religion & Philanthropy / Politics & Society / Religious Belief ]
… as a provincial schoolteacher living in Bristol and educated in her father’s school, she soon became the author of a play, The Search after Happiness , which, first published locally, was republished in London where it won her public … bluestocking circle, dominated by Mrs Montagu of whom she quickly became a protégée . It is undoubtedly her status as a playwright that enabled her to strike a lifelong friendship with David Garrick and his wife Eva and to lionize Samuel … eighteenth century observed the rituals that had by then been established, with its round of breakfasts, parties, card-playing, the central role of the tea-table , and a conversation where books 5 – they could be exchanged – health matters …
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