… The Letters of Hannah More: A Digital Edition (https://www.18thcenturycommon.org/ letters-hannah-digital-edition/). Intellectual sociability in the second half of the eighteenth century observed the rituals that had by then been … from London to Bath or Bristol and embodied a new ideal of womanhood by impersonating the philanthropic unmarried intellectual. 16 In her will, she donated money to a list of charitable institutions , 17 a further proof of her …