biography
pronunciation:
[moor]
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| female
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| lived:
| (1745–1833)
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| biography:
| Playwright and religious writer, born in Fishponds, Bristol, SW England, UK. Educated at a boarding school run by her sisters, she was jilted by her fiancé, then went to London in 1774, where she joined the ‘Blue Stocking’ coterie of Elizabeth Montagu and her friends. She wrote two tragedies for David Garrick: Percy (1777), and The Fatal Secret (1779). Her religious views caused her to withdraw from society to Cowslip Green near Bristol, where she did much to improve the condition of the poor, and published religious poems. Her moral tracts for the poor, Village Politics by Will Chip (1793), led to the founding of the Religious Tracts Society. |
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