Fierce Convictions: The Extraordinary Life of Hannah More ?Poet, Reformer, Abolitionist Prior Karen Swallow
Fierce Convictions: The Extraordinary Life of Hannah More ?Poet, Reformer, Abolitionist Prior Karen Swallow With a foreword by Eric Metaxas, best-selling author of Bonhoeffer and Amazing Grace.The…
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Fierce Convictions: The Extraordinary Life of Hannah More ?Poet, Reformer, Abolitionist Prior Karen Swallow
With a foreword by Eric Metaxas, best-selling author of Bonhoeffer and Amazing Grace.The enthralling biography of the woman writer who helped end the slave trade, changed Britain's upper classes, and taught a nation how to read.The history-changing reforms of Hannah More affected every level of 18th-Century British society through her keen intellect, literary achievements, collaborative spirit, strong Christian principles, and colorful personality. Yet she was also a leader in the Evangelical movement, using her cultural position and her pen to A woman without connections or status, More took the world of British letters by storm when she arrived in London from Bristol, becoming a best-selling author and acclaimed playwright and quickly befriending the author Samuel Johnson, the politician Horace Walpole, and the actor David Garrick.