William Wilberforce (the sociable voice of abolition) [ Politics ]
… religious faith and together they embodied a ‘middle-class model of marriage’ (Stott 135), a ‘companionate marriage‘. 9 Hannah More, his lifelong friend, was aware of the threat to his Christian activism but congratulated him: ‘The piety of your … 1797, MS: Weston Library, University of Oxford, MS Wilberforce c. 3, ff. 31-2. Published: Undetermined. The Letters of Hannah More: A Digital Edition (https://www.18thcenturycommon.org/ letters-hannah-digital-edition/). 11 . See Stott p. …
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