Hannah More (and philanthropic sociability) [ Religion & Philanthropy / Politics & Society / Religious Belief ]
… 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 Johnson and Horace Walpole. What has been called ‘the Complicated … labourers. At first, the cement of these new relationships was the sharing of literary interests: called ‘Nine' 3 by Garrick, More also wrote poems, essays and stories, and her celebrity fed on that of the other members of the …
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