[1795] - Hannah More launches the Cheap Repository Tracts (2 million distributed by the end of the year)

Hannah More (1745–1825), painted by Henry William Pickersgill, 1822

Useful Links and Further Reading

• Project Gutenberg, ‘Stories for the Young; or, Cheap Repository Tracts by Hannah More’,
  http://www.gutenberg.org/files/15034/15034–h/15034–h.htm
• Julia Saunders, ‘Putting the Reader Right: Reassessing Hannah More’s Cheap Repository Tracts’, Romanticism on the Net, 16 (1999),
  http://www.erudit.org/revue/ron/1999/v/n16/005881ar.html
• Laura Kelly Paprocki, ‘Hannah More and Cheap Repository Tracts;Lessons in “Religious and Useful Knowledge”’,
  http://hdl.handle.net/10012/5471
• Susan Pederson, ‘Hannah More meets Simple Simon: Tracts, Chapbooks, and Popular Culture in Late Eighteenth-Century England’, Journal of British Studies, 25.1 (1986), 84–113
• Kevin Gilmartin, ‘“Study to be Quiet”: Hannah More and the Invention of Conservative Culture in Britain’, ELH, 70.2 (2003), 493–540
• Anne Stott, Hannah More – The First Victorian (Oxford, 2004)