Are you looking for read ebook online? Search for your book and save it on your Kindle device, PC, phones or tablets. Download Percy PDF full book. Access full book title Percy by Hannah More. Download full books in PDF and EPUB format.
Author: Hannah More Publisher: BoD - Books on Demand ISBN: Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 63
Book Description
"Percy" by Hannah More is a captivating novel that follows the life of its titular character, Percy. Set against the backdrop of 18th-century England, the story traces Percy's journey from humble beginnings to a life of privilege and wealth. As Percy navigates the challenges and temptations of his newfound status, he grapples with questions of morality, duty, and personal integrity. Through Percy's experiences, More offers a nuanced exploration of the complexities of human nature and the pursuit of happiness. With its richly drawn characters and compelling narrative, "Percy" is a timeless tale of love, ambition, and redemption that continues to resonate with readers today.
Author: Hannah More Publisher: BoD - Books on Demand ISBN: Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 63
Book Description
"Percy" by Hannah More is a captivating novel that follows the life of its titular character, Percy. Set against the backdrop of 18th-century England, the story traces Percy's journey from humble beginnings to a life of privilege and wealth. As Percy navigates the challenges and temptations of his newfound status, he grapples with questions of morality, duty, and personal integrity. Through Percy's experiences, More offers a nuanced exploration of the complexities of human nature and the pursuit of happiness. With its richly drawn characters and compelling narrative, "Percy" is a timeless tale of love, ambition, and redemption that continues to resonate with readers today.
Author: Kerri Andrews Publisher: Routledge ISBN: 1000518442 Category : Literary Criticism Languages : en Pages : 166
Book Description
This book relocates the long life and literary career of the poet, playwright, novelist, philanthropist and teacher Hannah More (1745-1833) in the wider social and cultural contexts that shaped her, and which she helped shape in turn. One of the most influential writers and campaigners of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, More’s reputation has suffered unfairly from accusations of paternalism and provincialism, and misunderstandings of her sincerely-held but now increasingly unfamiliar evangelical beliefs. Now, in this book, readers can explore a range of essays rooted in up-to-the-minute research which examines newly-recovered archival materials and other evidence in order to present the fullest picture yet of this complex and compelling author, and the era she helped mould with her words.
Book Description
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. 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. Yet she was also a leader in the Evangelical movement, using her cultural position and her pen to support the growth of education for the poor, the reform of morals and manners, and the abolition of Britain’s slave trade. Fierce Convictions weaves together world and personal history into a stirring story of life that intersected with Wesley and Whitefield’s Great Awakening, the rise and influence of Evangelicalism, and convulsive effects of the French Revolution. A woman of exceptional intellectual gifts and literary talent, Hannah More was above all a person whose faith compelled her both to engage her culture and to transform it.
Author: Hannah More Publisher: Stage Door ISBN: 9781787374041 Category : Languages : en Pages :
Book Description
Hannah More was born on February 2nd, 1745 at Fishponds in the parish of Stapleton, near Bristol. She was the fourth of five daughters. The City of Bristol, at that time, was a centre for slave-trading and Hannah would, over time, become one of its staunchest critics. She was keen to learn, possessed a sharp intellect and was assiduous in studying. Hannah first wrote in 1762 with The Search after Happiness (by the mid-1780s some 10,000 copies had been sold). In 1767 Hannah became engaged to William Turner. After six years, with no wedding in sight, the engagement was broken off. Turner then bestowed upon her an annual annuity of 200. This was enough to meet her needs and set her free to pursue a literary career. Her first play, The Inflexible Captive, was staged at Bath in 1775. The famous David Garrick himself produced her next play, Percy, in 1777 as well as writing both the Prologue and Epilogue for it. It was a great success when performed at Covent Garden in December of that year. Hannah turned to religious writing with Sacred Dramas in 1782; it rapidly ran through nineteen editions. These and the poems Bas-Bleu and Florio (1786) mark her gradual transition to a more serious and considered view of life. Hannah contributed much to the newly-founded Abolition Society including, in February 1788, her publication of Slavery, a Poem recognised as one of the most important of the abolition period. Her work now became more evangelical. In the 1790s she wrote several Cheap Repository Tracts which covered moral, religious and political topics and were both for sale or distributed to literate poor people. The most famous is, perhaps, The Shepherd of Salisbury Plain, describing a family of incredible frugality and contentment. Two million copies of these were circulated, in one year. In 1789, she purchased a small house at Cowslip Green in Somerset. She was instrumental in setting up twelve schools in the area by 1800. She continued to oppose slavery throughout her life, but at the time of the Abolition Bill of 1807, her health did not permit her to take as active a role in the movement as she had done in the late 1780s, although she maintained a correspondence with Wilberforce and others. In July 1833, the Bill to abolish slavery throughout the British Empire passed in the House of Commons, followed by the House of Lords on August 1st. Hannah More died on September 7th, 1833.
Author: Hannah More
Author: Hannah More
Author: Hannah More
Author: Hannah More
Author: Hannah More
Author: David Garrick
Author: Kerri Andrews
Author: Karen Swallow Prior
Author: Hannah More
Author: Anne Stott
Author: Hannah More