Released in the UK November 2024
Released in the US November 2024
Large trade paperback | 304 Pages
9781527111608 • £11.99 $15.99
BISAC – BIO018000
The Sacred Flame
A Biography of Hannah More
Kevin Belmonte
18th century writer, philanthropist and reformer
Contemporary and friend of William Wilberforce
Author of William Borden biography, ‘Beacon–Light’
Hannah More was “the most successful British author of the romantic period,”—more successful, financially, than Sir Walter Scott, and more than Jane Austen. She was also a philanthropist and reformer, founded schools, educated girls, and campaigned against slavery. Yet there were moments of tragedy, and debilitating pain in her life. She knew loss and failure—and she learned the ways of grace, amid it all. Her life was illumined by the sacred flame of Christian belief.
Kevin Belmonte
Award–winning author Kevin Belmonte holds a BA in English Literature from Gordon College, an MA in Church History from Gordon–Conwell Seminary, and a second master’s degree in American and New England Studies from the University of Southern Maine. He has twice been a Finalist for the John Pollock Award for Christian Biography, and in 2003, he won that award for his biography of William Wilberforce. With his wife Kelly, and son Sam, he lives by the sea in New England.
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Christian Focus
Kevin Belmonte tells the story of one of the most remarkable women of a generation. By weaving together Hannah More’s writings, historical documents, and letters from her contemporaries, he helps us recognize and admire her reputation and influence.
Trevin Wax
Columnist, The Gospel Coalition; author, ‘The Thrill of Orthodoxy’
… Belmonte gives us a life of Hannah More rich with fact, and woven with meaning: a kind of stained glass to view finely detailed context, and with each glance, a more nuanced understanding of Hannah More’s life.
Lancia E. Smith
Founder and Executive Director, Cultivating Oaks Press
… kicks in the door of one–dimensional history and liberates its subject from stereotypes and marble busts.
Michael Card
Author and songwriter, ‘El Shaddai’ and ‘Immanuel’
Lively. Thoughtful. Substantial. Intelligent. Daring. These words have been used to describe Hannah More; they might happily serve to describe this wonderful book.
Diana Pavlac Glyer
Professor in the Honors College at Azusa Pacific University, California; author, ‘The Company They Keep: C.S. Lewis and J.R.R. Tolkien as Writers in Community’