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More, Hannah (1745 — 1833)
An English authoress best known in her own day for the Search After Happiness, a pastoral drama, and Percy and The Fatal Secret, both tragedies. In a letter to Robert Aiken, dated 2nd April 1786, Burns mentioned having inscribed a stanza, beginning 'Thou flat'ring mark of friendship kind' in a 'blank leaf of Miss More's works', presented to the author by a lady. One of the quatrains possibly reflects Burns's opinion of Miss More's qualities: "She show'd her taste, refin'd and just,
When she selected thee,
Yet deviating, own I must,
For so approving me..."
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