WOMEN, MORALITY AND ADVICE LITERATURE
Manuscripts and Rare Printed Works of Hannah More (1745-1833) and her Circle from the Clark Library, Los Angeles

Part 3: Writings by Eminent Blue Stockings

Hannah More was a highly successful and influential writer.  She wrote prolifically on philanthropy, politics, morals, manners and principals and aimed to revolutionise the behaviour and thinking of the nation.  This project presents a wide range of material relating to More and her circle.  It will allow an understanding of her as a playwright, poet, moralist, abolitionist and evangelical reformer.   

Part 3 contains a range of rare printed material by a number of More’s contemporaries, friends and fellow members of the Blue Stockings, including:

• Elizabeth Carter, a former journalist and renowned classical scholar.
• Hester Chapone, an essayist, with miscellanies in prose and verse and works such as A letter to a new-married lady, 1777, and Letters on the improvement of the mind, addressed to a young lady, 1787. 
• Elizabeth Montagu include The Letters of Mrs Elizabeth Montagu, bound in four volumes, and published between 1809 and 1813. 
• Catherine Talbot, translator and essayist.
• Anna Laetitia Barbauld, poet and educationalist.
• Hester Thrale Piozzi, the friend of Johnson and host of famous literary parties.