… Bluestocking Education Evangelicalism Friendship Manners Philanthropy Poverty Reformation Religion Slavery Women
Wilberforce Hannah More (1745-1833), who was one of the first women writers to become famous in Britain and later abroad, … high spirits and seriousness in a blend similar to her own.’ (Demers, The World, 8) It is in Bath that she met William
Wilberforce and that the two conceived a scheme to improve the condition of the Mendip labourers. At first, the cement of … the second generation of bluestockings she helped maintain it in the limelight. Even in the case of her friendship with
Wilberforce, it is literature that brought them together and he acted as literary adviser. ‘ Barley Wood 24 September …