In Praise of Poverty: Hannah More Counters Thomas Paine and the Radical Threat.(Reviews of Books)(Book Review)

Mona Scheuermann. In Praise of Poverty: Hannah More reckoners Thomas Paine and the Radical Threat. Lexington, Ky: University Pres of Kentucky 2002 Pp xiv, 255 $3600 ISBN 0-8131-2222-8

Hannah More (1745-1833) was the same of the most celebrated writers of her age in Britain. The intention of this book is to introduce her ideas by the and of a close examination of sentences and to set these in their intellectual connection The argument is that More must be appreciated as a significant political figure whose writings showed the prejudices and fears of a conservative age at a time when