Hannah More (1745–1833): Writer, educationist and conservative. More was born in Bristol, where her father, Jacob More (1700–1783) founded a series of schools. More taught in these schools until an annuity she received as compensation from her ex-fiancée for breaking off their engagement allowed her to concentrate on literature. Her first efforts were pastoral plays, and from 1773–1774 onwards she visited London regularly and became well-known in literary circles. In the late 1780s she became increasingly close to some of the leading evangelical Churchmen and an advocate of the abolition of slavery. Her works became steadily more serious in tone and centred on promoting morality in society. More was a virulent conservative and opponent of the French Revolution and her Cheap Repository Tracts, published in 1795–1798, were aimed at promoting conservative and patriotic values among working class readers. She remained involved in a number of charity schools she founded in Somerset, which possessed a similar aim. Southey and More met in October 1795, when he visited her house at Cowslip Green, just outside Bristol.