prejudices, introducing
unheard-of innovations, adopting plans which rumour stated were deeply
tainted with Methodism (and therefore bad, according to clerical and
general opinion in those days), she had to encounter at last a pitiless
storm of hostility. This violent and prolonged attack, whilst it showed
to what infamous lengths the tongues of slander, envy, and bigotry could
go in attempting to destroy a noble woman's reputation, tested to the
utmost Hannah More's fine qualities of Christian forbearance
and courage.

V.

BARLEY WOOD, CLOSING YEAES AND DEATH.

In 1802 Miss More removed from Cowslip Green to a house which she had
built at Barley Wood, about a mile distant. Soon afterwards her sisters,
having disposed of their house at Bath, came to live with her. For the
next twenty years, or more, friends from all parts sought her society,
and strangers of all ages and of all ranks came for advice, sympathy,
and help. Her immense correspondence occupied a very large portion of
her time. There was scarcely a person at all prominent in the religious
world who was not brought into association with her.

Miss More's prolonged life did not close until 1833, when she had
arrived at her eighty-ninth year. The thirty-one years that remained to
her after quitting Cowslip Green was as full of work and usefulness as
the previous part of her life. It will be impossible within the space
now left to do more than indicate the chief events of this period, which
was not remarkable for any fresh departure either in educational or
religious work. Miss More had already marked out for herself two
distinct and definite lines of usefulness--the education of the poor,
and the improvement of morals and religion amongst the rich. By her
active exertion and by her busy pen she continued to pursue these two
lines of work down to the year of her death. It must be remembered that
she was a martyr during these latter years to long attacks of illness,
one of which almost completely prostrated her for two years; and when
upwards of seventy she was unable to leave the house for more than seven
years. At this period she stated that she had never been free from pain
for long together since she was ten years old. Such physical hindrances
render her persistent activity and the great work she accomplished all
the more remarkable. When not entirely incapacitated she still worked
with her pen, attended to business connected with her schools, and