Hannah More wrote religious, moral and educational prose, poetry and drama aimed at readers across different social classes. Her Cheap Repository Tracts used short stories, dialogues and ballads to promote thrift, sobriety, Christian conduct and social order among popular audiences, while Strictures on the Modern System of Female Education argues for more serious intellectual and religious education for women within conservative social limits. Coelebs in Search of a Wife turns moral instruction into a novel about choosing a suitable Christian marriage partner. More's writing is didactic, direct and historically revealing, combining evangelical belief with social reform and paternalistic assumptions about class. Her work fits eighteenth-century religious writing, women's education, moral fiction and the history of popular print. Read more Less
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