Anne Stott
- Published in print:
- 2004
- Published Online:
- January 2010
- ISBN:
- 9780199274888
- eISBN:
- 9780191714962
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199274888.003.0008
- Subject:
- History, British and Irish Modern History
Between 1795 and 1798 Hannah More oversaw the production of over a hundred Cheap Repository Tracts, cheap literature for the poor modelled on the existing chapbooks and broadside ballads that aimed ...
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Between 1795 and 1798 Hannah More oversaw the production of over a hundred Cheap Repository Tracts, cheap literature for the poor modelled on the existing chapbooks and broadside ballads that aimed at weaning them away from what she saw as the less decorous aspects of popular culture. Her most celebrated tract was The Shepherd of Salisbury Plain. The Riot was aimed at stopping the food riots that were endemic in 1795, which E. P. Thompson has seen as part of the moral economy of the poor. It is argued that the Cheap Repository was a success, not because it had a significant impact on the poor but because large numbers of upper-and middle-class people, especially women and clergymen, were involved. The Cheap Repository marked a significant step in the involvement of women in the reformation of manners movement.Less
Between 1795 and 1798 Hannah More oversaw the production of over a hundred Cheap Repository Tracts, cheap literature for the poor modelled on the existing chapbooks and broadside ballads that aimed at weaning them away from what she saw as the less decorous aspects of popular culture. Her most celebrated tract was The Shepherd of Salisbury Plain. The Riot was aimed at stopping the food riots that were endemic in 1795, which E. P. Thompson has seen as part of the moral economy of the poor. It is argued that the Cheap Repository was a success, not because it had a significant impact on the poor but because large numbers of upper-and middle-class people, especially women and clergymen, were involved. The Cheap Repository marked a significant step in the involvement of women in the reformation of manners movement.
