HANNAH AND HER PRAYERS

"The Care of the Poor Is Her Profession": Hannah More and Women's Philanthropic Work

I n an 1841 letter to William Ellery Channing, critic and historian Lucy Aikin noted that the practice of visiting the poor had now become "a fashion and a rage" among English women, thanks in large part to a novel published in 1808 by Hannah More, the famous Evangelical writer, philanthropist, and educator (Aikin 396). The novel was entitled Coelehs in Search of a Wife.' Aikin credits More and...

HOMILETICS "The Song of Hannah"

(The importance of the preacher's exegetical work is greater than the life-span of one sermon. It has more to do with the life-span of the preacher himself. Exegetical study maketh the exact theologian. His study builds his ministering. It is therefore interesting to examine the relationship between a detailed exegetical study of a text and a sermon that is preached as part of its results. This...

An unexplained death: Hannah Greener and chloroform.

HANNAH Greener of Winlaton, near Newcastle in the United Kingdom, died more than 150 yr ago, on January 28, 1848, after receiving a chloroform anesthetic for the removal of a toenail. She was a healthy 15-yr-old girl who had successfully undergone an anesthetic with diethyl ether several months before for the removal of another toenail. Hers was the first death (fig. 1) attributed to the new an...

Hannah Arendt, Totalitarianism, and the Social Sciences

Durkin , Hannah ( 2013 ) Remembering slavery on screen

This article examines cinematic remembrances of the Atlantic slave trade through the lens of Paul Robeson-starring British film The Song of Freedom (1936). An exceptional visualization of the horrors of the Middle Passage in transatlantic interwar cinema, the production nevertheless recapitulates an abolitionist visual paradigm characterized by lacunae and distortion. Yet, it also serves as an ...