Gronniosaw hannah more biography

More was born in Bristol.

Gronniosaw hannah more biography

As a young woman she was lucky enough to receive a formal education – initially from her father, who was a schoolmaster. She went on to run a successful school for young women in Bristol, along with her four sisters. Here she wrote plays for school performances, which brought her to the attention of influential members of the literary and theatre worlds such as Samuel Johnson and David Garrick.

She then pursued her own very successful literary career in London, where she joined the Bluestockings, a pioneering intellectual society founded by women.

Towards the end of the s, More became an important contributor to the British movement to abolish the Transatlantic Slave Trade, using her writing ability to help influence public opinion.

In , she wrote ‘Slavery, a poem’ in support of the parliamentary campaign to abolish the Slave Trade, led by her close friend William Wilberforce. By the s, she had become deeply involved in the Abolition campaign with a group