Author: [MORE (Hannah)]:
Title: Essays on Various Subjects, Principally designed for Young Ladies. The Fourth Edition.
Description: London: Printed for T. Cadell..., 1785. 8vo, 170 x 103 mms., pp. [viii], 214 [215 adverts, 216 blank], later calf; spine worn, joints cracked (but firm), corners worn. More (1745 - 1833) drew on her experience teaching at her sisters' school for this book, published anonymously in 1777. Horace Walpole said of her, "How I admire the activity of your zeal and perseverance! Should a new church ever be built, I hope in a side chapel there will be an altar dedicated to Saint Hannah, Virgin and Martyr; and that your pen, worn to the bone, will be enclosed in a golden reliquaire and preserved on the shrine." Less reverently, William Cobbett referred to her as an "old bishop in petticoats."

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