Introduction

Biography

Moore’s fa­ther, a cle­ric, con­duct­ed a foun­da­tion school in Sta­ple­ton. Han­nah and three sis­ters op­ened a board­ing school for young la­dies, first at Sta­pleton, and af­ter­wards at Bris­tol.

Works

At age 17, Han­nah com­posed a pas­tor­al dra­ma ti­tled The Search Af­ter Hap­pi­ness. She sub­se­quent­ly de­vot­ed her pen to the cause of re­li­gion and mor­als.

Her works be­came quite po­pu­lar and earned her over £30,000. A third of this sum she gave to cha­ri­ty. Her me­moirs and cor­res­pon­dence, in four vol­umes, ap­peared in 1834.