"The Care of the Poor Is Her Profession": Hannah More and Women's Philanthropic Work
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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 her fellow Evangelicals with originating a major shift both in the moral "tone" of nineteenth-. century society and in the role of women:
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