Fierce Convictions
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Fierce Convictions

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Fierce Convictions

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With a foreword by Eric Metaxas, best-selling author of Bonhoeffer and Amazing Grace.

The enthralling biography of the woman writer who helped end the slave trade, changed Britain's upper classes, and taught a nation how to read.

The history-changing reforms of Hannah More affected every level of 18 th -Century British society through her keen intellect, literary achievements, collaborative spirit, strong Christian principles, and colorful personality. A woman without connections or status, More took the world of British letters by storm when she arrived in London from Bristol, becoming a best-selling author and acclaimed playwright and quickly befriending the author Samuel Johnson, the politician Horace Walpole, and the actor David Garrick. Yet she was also a leader in the Evangelical movement, using her cultural position and her pen to support the growth of education for the poor, the reform of morals and manners, and the abolition of Britain's slave trade.

Fierce Convictions weaves together world and personal history into a stirring story of life that intersected with Wesley and Whitefield's Great Awakening, the rise and influence of Evangelicalism, and convulsive effects of the French Revolution. A woman of exceptional intellectual gifts and literary talent, Hannah More was above all a person whose faith compelled her both to engage her culture and to transform it.

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Publisher
Thomas Nelson
Year
2014
ISBN
9781400206261
Topic
Theology & Religion
Subtopic
Religious Biographies

Table of contents

  1. COVER PAGE
  2. TITLE PAGE
  3. COPYRIGHT PAGE
  4. DEDICATION
  5. CONTENTS
  6. FOREWORD
  7. PREFACE
  8. CHAPTER 1: A BRIGHT IMAGINATION
  9. CHAPTER 2: A SCHOOL OF SISTERS
  10. CHAPTER 3: THE ROAD TO SINGLEDOM
  11. CHAPTER 4: THE MAKING OF A FEMALE PEN
  12. CHAPTER 5: LONDON AT LAST
  13. CHAPTER 6: LEARNED LADIES
  14. CHAPTER 7: ALL THAT GLISTENS IS NOT GOLD
  15. CHAPTER 8: FAITH TO SEE
  16. CHAPTER 9: THE LABOR FOR LIBERTY
  17. CHAPTER 10: TEACHING THE NATION TO READ
  18. CHAPTER 11: AN AMPLE TABLE
  19. CHAPTER 12: BURDENED FOR THE BEASTS
  20. CHAPTER 13: REFORM, NOT REVOLUTION
  21. CHAPTER 14: AN IMAGINATION THAT MOVED THE WORLD
  22. CHAPTER 15: WE SHALL BE EQUAL
  23. EPILOGUE
  24. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
  25. NOTES
  26. ABOUT THE AUTHOR
  27. INDEX
  28. PHOTOS