HANNAH MORE - AUTOGRAPH NOTE SIGNED 07/05/1774 - HFSID 73123

HANNAH MORE
The eighteenth-century literary and religious figure writes a French verse, signs name in black ink
Autograph note signed: "Quand vous lisez ce livre/ penserz de l'amie qui vous/ la donnes/ Hannah More" in faded black ink. Translation: "When you read this think of the person who gave it to you". 1 page, 4¾x3. July 5, 1774. Hannah More (1745-1833) was an English religious writer and philanthropist; her career is said to consist of three reputations, a poet and playwright in the Blue Stocking Society crowd of Dr. Samuel Johnson, Joshua Reynolds, and David Garrick, a writer of religious and moral subjects, and as a practical philanthropist. More, alongside her father and sisters, opened a boarding school when she was in her teens, and she taught there as a young women. After More suffered a heartbreaking end to an engagement, she focused on her literary career, staging the play The Inflexible Captive (1774) before her most successful work Percy: a Tradgedy in 1777, eventually quitting playwriting after the failure of her last work The Fatal Falsehood (1779). In the 1790s More became involved with a group of evangelical Christians known as the Clapham Sect, who were firm opposes to slavery, and More began writing and editing religious tracts (ballads, moral stories, and readings), composing such works as "Slavery, A Poem" (1788). More, furthermore, worked alongside her sister Martha More to campaign for the education of the poor, even opening more than a dozen Sunday schools. Irregularly cut. Toned. Worn and soiled. Ink notes on bottom margin in unknown hand. Stained throughout. Mounting adhesive on verso. Otherwise, fine condition.