All the links were brilliant. I have started reading "Strictures on the Modern System of Female Education" and am carefully puzzling over it, trying to work out what JA would have made of it by comparing Mary, Fanny and other characters both early and late (Elizabeth Bennet and Anne Elliot, for example)to
Hannah More's ideas.

However, I have just discovered that I have reinvented the wheel. Park Honan came to exactly the same conclusion. In "Jane Austen, Her Life" he says:

"Fanny Price embodies the lesson in Hannah Moore's Strictures on the Modern System of Female Education (1799) for example, that a woman needs studies which avoid display, will lead her to think and will give her courage and judgement"

Over at the MP board there is a constant stream of "Fanny and Edmund are a bit judgemental sitting around and discussing Mary" statements. I now think this is quite deliberate and that JAs later heroines such as Fanny do seem to have heaps of Evangelical traits as espoused by Evangelical writers familiar to JA.

Next stop, "Coelebs in Search of a Wife". Apaprently Park Honan thinks the whole story is echoed in MP.