… party, and an agreeable day it was to me. I have seldom heard so much wit under the banner of so much decorum (…).’ ( Memoirs , vol.I, 68-69) 5 . See William Roberts, Memoirs of the Life and Correspondence of Mrs Hannah More (London: R.B. Seeley and W. Burnside, 1834), 2nd edition, … a Young Princess (1805): women should make themselves useful. 6 . She expressed her dislike in a letter to Wilberforce (Memoirs, vol.II, p. 404). 7 . Anne Stott, Hannah More, The First Victorian (Oxford: OUP, 2003), p. 260. As argued by …