Further Reading
- "Review of Cœlebs in Search of a Wife," Monthly Mirror 5 (April 1809): 223-36. (Faults More for creating a lifeless hero and inconsistent characters.)
- Child, Philip, "Portrait of a Woman of Affairs—Old Style," University of Toronto Quarterly 3, no. 1 (October 1933): 87-102. (Surveys More's life and accomplishments, maintaining that she was one of the first independent, non-aristocratic women to achieve success as a writer.)
- Cole, Lucinda, "(Anti)Feminist Sympathies: The Politics of Relationship in Smith, Wollstonecraft, and More," ELH 58, no. 1 (spring 1991): 107-40. (Compares the writing of Mary Wollstonecraft and More within the context of the male-dominated discourse on community and relationships associated with Adam Smith.)
- Demers, Patricia, "‘For mine's a stubborn and a savage will’: ‘Lactilla’ (Ann Yearsley) and ‘Stella’ (Hannah More) Reconsidered," Huntington Library Quarterly 56, no. 2 (spring 1993): 135-50. (Examines the controversial relationship between the aspiring poet Ann Yearsley and More, her literary patron.)
- Evans, M. J. Crossley, "The English Evangelicals and the Enlightenment: The Case of Hannah More," Studies on Voltaire and the Eighteenth Century 303 (1992): 458-62. (Discusses More's anti-Enlightenment polemics written between 1788 and 1818.)
- Guest, Harriet, "The Dream of a Common Language: Hannah More and Mary Wollstonecraft," Textual Practice 9, no. 2 (summer 1995): 303-23. (Analyzes similarities in Mary Wollstonecraft's Vindication of the Rights of Woman and More's Strictures on the Modern System of Female Education.)
- Hopkins, Mary Alden, "Didactic Books," in Hannah More and Her Circle, pp. 221-33. New York: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1947. (Addresses what More considered her own best work, maintaining that these are the very books that are of the poorest quality from a literary standpoint and are of the least interest to readers and critics today.)
- Myers, Mitzi, "‘A Peculiar Protection’: Hannah More and the Cultural Politics of the Blagdon Controversy," in History, Gender and Eighteenth-Century Literature, edited by Beth Fowkes Tobin, pp. 227-57. Athens: The University of Georgia Press, 1994. (Considers the gender politics inherent in the dispute over More's establishment of religious schools in Blagdon parish and the unorthodox instruction she allegedly permitted in them.)
- Snook, Edith, "Eve and More: The Citation of Paradise Lost in Hannah More's Cœlebs in Search of a Wife," English Studies in Canada 26, no. 2 (June 2000): 127-54. (Details More's attempt to alter the novel, which she considered a “morally deficient form,” into a genre that could improve society.)
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