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Informationen zum Autor Hannah More (1745-1833) was one of the defining Christian female voices of Georgian Britain. An influential Evangelical writer, her vast literary output includes essays, hymns, plays, poems, popular tracts (her Cheap Repository Tracts sold millions of copies) and a novel, while her philanthropic spirit established schools for children, woman's clubs and improved the conditions of the poor. She was a member of The Blue Stockings Society of England, and was connected with many notable figures of her era, including Edmund Burke, David Garrick, Samuel Johnson, Sir Joshua Reynolds, Horace Walpole, and the abolitionist William Wilberforce, whose campaign to end the British slave trade was greatly aided by her poem Slavery. Hannah steadfastly supported piety, traditional Christian values and education - her zeal even taking on Thomas Paine and the French Revolution. As England began to grapple with industrial and scientific revolutions, More helped prepare British society for the challenges of the 19th century by promoting Biblical values and Evangelical social reforms. She was a paragon of her age, and a beacon for Christ. Klappentext Hannah More's influential two-volume work of 1799 outlines her conservative stance on women's education and conduct. Zusammenfassung Hannah More (1745–1833) was highly influential in her lifetime, publishing a wide variety of successful works, including social and moral tracts and religious fiction. This two-volume work (1799) is her definitive study on women's education, outlining her belief that women's conduct determined the moral state of a nation. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction; 1. Address to women of rank and fortune, on the effects of their influence on society; 2. On the education of women; 3. External improvements; 4. Comparison of the mode of female education in the last ages with the present; 5. On the religious employment of time; 6. Filial obedience not the character of the age; 7. On female study, and initiation into knowledge; 8. On the religious and moral use of history and geography; 9. On the use of definitions, and the moral benefits of accuracy in language; 10. On religion; 11. On the manner of instructing young persons in religion; 12. Hints suggested for furnishing young persons with a scheme of prayer....
