Hannah Adams was a woman who wrote for a living and made an impact on people through her writing. She grew up being the second child of five with both parents up until the age of 12 when her mother passed away (Curtiss). Due to having an illness she could not receive formal education but continued to read and gain an interest in religion (Hannah). With the encouragement of her father and his access to students that were on leave for discipline and tutoring from Harvard, Hannah Adams was more exposed to education and soon became a tutor herself (Curtiss). During the Revolutionary War one of her students gave her a copy of Thomas Broughton's An Historical Dictionary of All Religions from the Creation of the World to This Perfect Time (Curtiss).
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This caused a controversy with an Orthodox Calvinist pastor by the name of Rev. Jedidiah Morse (Sheola). Jedidiah Morse had also published a successful book that was known as Universal Geography. When Hannah Adams made the decision to attempt to publish a condensed version of her history book for school use, Morse decided to follow her lead and create his own (Sheola). Adams stated that he was impeding on an area that she had already claimed was hers (Sheola). Morse retorted that he had every right to do as he pleases, meaning he can publish whatever he wants to (Sheola). He also accused her followers of purposely trying to ruin his reputation by the multi religious domination feud (Sheola). Later the arbiter settled that Rev. Jedidiah Morse did not owe anything to Hannah Adams. Even though neither won in that situation, Adams did gain a moral victory because the public resented Morse after his “indifference to the welfare of a middle aged female” (Sheola). In the later years Adams began to increase her connection with the affluent and even gained connections with Boston intellectuals William Shaw and Joseph Stevens Buckminster who would soon create an Anthology Society (Sheola). Her connections kept her and her family from going back into poverty (Sheola). Later she moved to Boston which allowed her to use
This caused a controversy with an Orthodox Calvinist pastor by the name of Rev. Jedidiah Morse (Sheola). Jedidiah Morse had also published a successful book that was known as Universal Geography. When Hannah Adams made the decision to attempt to publish a condensed version of her history book for school use, Morse decided to follow her lead and create his own (Sheola). Adams stated that he was impeding on an area that she had already claimed was hers (Sheola). Morse retorted that he had every right to do as he pleases, meaning he can publish whatever he wants to (Sheola). He also accused her followers of purposely trying to ruin his reputation by the multi religious domination feud (Sheola). Later the arbiter settled that Rev. Jedidiah Morse did not owe anything to Hannah Adams. Even though neither won in that situation, Adams did gain a moral victory because the public resented Morse after his “indifference to the welfare of a middle aged female” (Sheola). In the later years Adams began to increase her connection with the affluent and even gained connections with Boston intellectuals William Shaw and Joseph Stevens Buckminster who would soon create an Anthology Society (Sheola). Her connections kept her and her family from going back into poverty (Sheola). Later she moved to Boston which allowed her to use