About the author: Karen Swallow Prior received her PhD from the State University of New York at Buffalo. She is currently Assistant Professor of English at Liberty University, Lynchburg Virginia.
2003 0-7734-6699-1 This work provides both an introduction to the genre of the didactic religious novel and the culture of evangelicalism that was developing halfway through Hannah More's life, reaching its full flowering at about the time of her death in 1833.