Timeline of Significant Events
1758 More sisters open first school
1773 Breaks off Engagement to marry William Turner. Never marries.
1789 French Revolution begins with the storming of the Bastille
1791 Thomas Paine publishes Rights of Man
1793 More publishes Village Politics (response to Paine)
1793 The Reign of Terror occurs in France under Robespierre
1795 Authors and publishes the first of the Cheap Repositories
1799 Napoleon Bonaparte takes office as First Consul in France
1799-02 The Blagdon Controversy, Hannah More is accused of Methodism
1808 More publishes her only novel, Coelebs in Search of a Wife
1832 Representation of the People Act is passed in England, a minimal, first reform act making way for future change.
1833 Hannah More dies, buried at Wrington, England
(Stott website)
1773 Breaks off Engagement to marry William Turner. Never marries.
1789 French Revolution begins with the storming of the Bastille
1791 Thomas Paine publishes Rights of Man
1793 More publishes Village Politics (response to Paine)
1793 The Reign of Terror occurs in France under Robespierre
1795 Authors and publishes the first of the Cheap Repositories
1799 Napoleon Bonaparte takes office as First Consul in France
1799-02 The Blagdon Controversy, Hannah More is accused of Methodism
1808 More publishes her only novel, Coelebs in Search of a Wife
1832 Representation of the People Act is passed in England, a minimal, first reform act making way for future change.
1833 Hannah More dies, buried at Wrington, England
(Stott website)