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Hannah
Hannah in the Bible, Samuel's mother. Her song is recalled in the Magnificat . The names Anna and Ann are variants of Hannah.
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Hannah Glasse
Hannah Glasse , fl. 1747, writer of a popular English cookbook, Art of Cookery (1747). She is also credited with writing The Compleat Confectioner and The Servant's Directory, both published in 1770.
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Hannah More
Hannah More 1745-1833, English author and social reformer. She was educated, and later taught, at her sisters' school for girls in Bristol. At the age of 22 she became engaged to William Turner, a wealthy squire 20 years older than she; he never married her, but settled an annuity on her that made ...
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bluestocking
bluestocking derisive term originally applied to certain 18th-century women with pronounced literary interests. During the 1750s, Elizabeth Vesey held evening parties, at which the entertainment consisted of conversation on literary subjects. Eminent men of the day were invited to contribute to the...
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Hannah Cowley
Hannah Cowley 1743-1809, English poet and dramatist. One of the Della-Cruscans , she contributed under the name Alma Matilda sentimental verse to the World. Her most successful comedy was The Belle's Stratagem (produced in 1780).
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Clapham Sect
Clapham Sect group of English social reformers, active c.1790-1830, so named because their activities centered on the home in Clapham, London, of Henry Thornton and William Wilberforce. Most of the members were evangelical Anglicans and members of Parliament. They included Zachary Macaulay, Thomas ...
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Anna
Anna , [Gr.,=Heb. Hannah ], in the Bible. 1 Aged prophetess who hailed Jesus' presentation at the Temple. 2 In the Book of Tobit, the mother of young Tobias.
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Elkanah
Elkanah , in the Bible. 1 Husband of Hannah and father of Samuel. 2 Head of a Levitical family. 3 Officer of Ahaz's household. 4 Doorkeeper of the Ark of the Covenant.
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Harriet Tubman
Harriet Tubman c.1820-1913, American abolitionist, b. Dorchester co., Md. Born into slavery, she escaped to Phildelphia in 1849, and subsequently became one of the most successful "conductors" on the Underground Railroad . Returning to the South more than a dozen times, she is generally credit...
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Hannah Webster Foster
Hannah Webster Foster 1759-1840, American novelist, b. Boston. She was one of the earliest American novelists and her epistolary novel, The Coquette (1797), was one of the first of its kind in America. It was based on the story (well known at the time) of Elizabeth Whitman, a well-educated 37 yea...
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