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C.D. Warner, et al., comp.
The Library of the World’s Best Literature. An Anthology in Thirty Volumes. 1917.

Hannah More (1745–1833)

More, Hannah. An English religious writer; born at Stapleton, Gloucestershire, Feb. 2, 1745; died at Clifton, Sept. 7, 1833. Her best-known works were the celebrated tract ‘The Shepherd of Salisbury Plain’ and the novel ‘Cœlebs in Search of a Wife’ (1809). She wrote also: ‘Sacred Dramas’ (1782); ‘Religion of the Fashionable World’ (1791); ‘Practical Piety’ (1811); etc. Garrick produced her tragedies ‘Percy’ (1778) and ‘The Fatal Falsehood’ (1779).