received visitors in the sick room. It used to be said amongst her
friends that when she was laid aside they always expected a new
book from her.

In 1805 she published _Hints towards forming the Character of a Young
Princess_. It was undertaken, at the request of a bishop, with reference
to the education of the Princess Charlotte.

In 1809 her religious novel, _Coelebs in Search of a Wife_, issued
anonymously, roused universal attention. In twelve months as many
editions came out; and during the author's lifetime thirty editions of a
thousand copies each were printed in America. This was followed shortly
by _Practical Piety_, which soon ran to the tenth edition, and which
brought the author to the end of her life numerous gratifying
testimonies of its results. As a sequel to this work, _Christian Morals_
was published in 1812, and was also widely circulated. Three years
later, when the author had entered her seventieth year, she wrote an
_Essay on the Character and Writings of St. Paul_, in two volumes,
which, notwithstanding absorbing political events, was received with the
same eagerness which greeted her former works. _Moral Sketches of
Prevailing Opinions and Manners, Foreign and Domestic_, was published in
1819, being chiefly directed against the rage for copying French customs
and manners. At the age of eighty-two she collected from her later works
her _Thoughts on Prayer_ and re-issued them in a little volume, with a
short preface. This was her last literary effort. She said to a friend
that the only remarkable thing which belonged to her as an author was
that she had written eleven volumes after the age of sixty.

Between 1813 and 1818 her four sisters died. The last to go was Martha,
Hannah's trusty helpmeet and lieutenant in all her benevolent schemes,
and her tender consoler in many a season of sickness. Soon after this
event Miss More's long illness of seven years occurred. Unable to give
proper supervision to her servants, she was victimised in household
matters in various ways. Extravagance and misconduct at length gave rise
to scandal; and at the representation of friends Miss More reluctantly
decided to break up her establishment, and remove to another and smaller
residence at Clifton. It was with a sad heart that she left her charming
dwelling; and as she glanced back into the beautiful garden, with its
shady bowers, she exclaimed, "I am driven, like Eve, out of Paradise;
but not, like Eve, by angels