Towards ending slavery through words and will - A look at abolitionist writer Hannah More (1)

Hannah More, playwright, poet, essayist and moral reformist, evokes complicated sentiments from scholars.

On the one hand, they have discovered that she was a “woman of far richer personality and of greater significance in the history of her time [operating within] a remarkable galaxy of men and women, who, between them, represented the different interests of the age and who sought her friendship and valued her opinion” (Jones ix).

On the other hand, she “has become the embodiment of conser...