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HANNAH MORE.
exciting "than he wished, perhaps because Hannah, in consequence it may be of her early apprenticeship to the Tragic Muse, was somewhat inclined to dispose of her worst characters by suicide. For the three years between 1794 and 1797 she devoted her pen entirely to this work; but the expense was so heavy that she could not keep it up any longer, and indeed her tracts continued for some twenty years to be the staple light literature in such orthodox village lending libraries as existed.
