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In Praise of Poverty: Hannah More Counters Thomas Paine and the Radical Threat by Mona Scheuermann (review)

At the outset ofMona Scheuermann's book on Hannah More, 18th-century British writer of social tracts, the author makes clear that her study of More in the context ofThomas Paine's writing is as much a social history as it is a study of an individual author. This warning prepares us for an examination of the prolific More, embedded within her era's socio-political issues. Scheuermann's strategy ofexploring Mores authorship in conjunction with that of Paine—but also in relation to other, equally renowned writers of her time— enables us to grasp the ideological coloring ofMore and her wealthy backers. The daughter of a schoolmaster, More and her three sisters all have early access to superb education, although Hannah is the most precocious. She teaches at her oldest sister's school, and later comes to the attention of London's intellectual elite when a letter she writes on a performance of Garrick's Lear gets circulated. She soon becomes acquainted with some of the intellectual giants of her day, and develops friendships that last her entire life. More and her circle of influential friends and admirers believe in God's hierar-