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From: The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature
Date: 20030101
Author:MARGARET DRABBLE and JENNY STRINGER
More, Hannah
(1745–1833), an eminent member of the Blue Stocking Circle. She published in 1773 The Search for Happiness , a pastoral play for schools, and came to London in 1774, where she became a friend of Garrick and his wife and of Burke , Dr Johnson , S. Richardson , and Percy . She was greatly esteemed by Horace Walpole , who honoured her by printing her Bishop Bonner's Ghost (1781) on his press at Strawberry Hill. Her tragedy Percy , produced by Garrick in 1777, established her as a literary success. It was followed by another tragedy, The Fatal Falsehood (1779). Her poem ...Read the rest of this article with a Free Trial at HighBeam Research.
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