Hannah More
Hannah More (1745-1833) was one of the defining Christian female voices of Georgian Britain. An influential Evangelical writer, her vast literary output included essays, hymns, plays, poems, popular tracts (her Cheap Repository Tracts sold millions of copies) and a novel, while her philanthropic spirit established schools for children, woman's clubs and improved the conditions of the poor.She was a member of The Blue Stockings Society of England, and was connected with many notable figures of her era, including Edmund Burke, David Garrick, Samuel Johnson, Sir Joshua Reynolds, Horace Walpole, and the abolitionist William Wilberforce, whose campaign to end the British slave trade was greatly aided by her poem Slavery.Hannah steadfastly supported piety, traditional Christian values and education - her zeal even taking on Thomas Paine and the French Revolution.As England began to grapple with its industrial and scientific revolutions, More helped prepare British society for the challenges of the 19th century by promoting Biblical values and Evangelical social reforms. She was a paragon of her age, and a beacon for Christ.
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Title: The Fatal Falsehood
Author: Hannah More
Release Date: May 29, 2011 [EBook #36257]
Language: English
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THE
FATAL FALSEHOOD:
A TRAGEDY.
IN FIVE ACTS.
AS IT WAS ACTED AT THE
THEATRE ROYAL, COVENT GARDEN.
Drawn from:
THE
WORKS
OF
HANNAH MORE.
VOL. II.
LONDON
PRINTED FOR T. CADELL, STRAND
1830.
TO THE
COUNTESS BATHURST,
THIS TRAGEDY
IS
VERY RESPECTFULLY INSCRIBED,
AS
A SMALL TRIBUTE TO HER MANY VIRTUES,
AND
AS A GRATEFUL TESTIMONY
OF THE FRIENDSHIP WITH WHICH SHE HONOURS
HER MOST OBEDIENT
AND MOST OBLIGED
HUMBLE SERVANT,
THE AUTHOR.
DRAMATIS PERSONÆ.
PROLOGUE.
WRITTEN BY THE AUTHOR OF THE TRAGEDY.
SPOKEN BY MR. HULL.
THE FATAL FALSEHOOD.
ACT I.
Scene—An Apartment in Guildford Castle.
Enter Bertrand.