Hannah More
historical figure · 1 work · 1 mentions · 2 anchored passages · author page
in the texts
Lectures on the Relation between Law and Public Opinion in England
Evangelical writer whose religious outlook is linked to the spirit of the Health and Morals Act, 1802.
A reader versed in the religious literature of 1800 might well believe that Sir Robert Peel had drafted the Health and Morals Act after consultation with Hannah More.
It was the age of Wilberforce (1759-1833), of Clarkson (1760-1846), of Zachary Macaulay (1768-1838), of Simeon (1759-1836), of Henry Martin (1781-1812), of Elizabeth Fry (1780-1845), of Hannah More (1745-1833).