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WOMEN, MORALITY AND ADVICE LITERATURE Manuscripts and Rare Printed Works of Hannah More (1745-1833) and her circle from the Clark Library, Los Angeles

Part 1: Manuscripts, First Editions and Rare Printed Works of Hannah More Part 2: Gift Books, Memoirs, Pamphlets and the Cheap Repository Tracts Part 3: Writings by The Eminent Blue Stockings

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PUBLISHER'S NOTE

Hannah More's Public Voice in Georgian Britain by Patricia Demers

Hannah More, Revolutionary Reformer by Anne K. Mellor

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Women, Morality and Advice Literature, Parts 1 to 3

Publisher's Note

Women, Morality and Advice Literature focuses on the life and works of Hannah More (1745-1833), one of the best selling and most influential women authors of her time, in England. Through her writings, philanthropy, political activities, and personal relationships More set out to lead a moral revolution of the nation’s manners and principles. Writing in different literary genres and styles her printed works span a period of some five decades. Plays, poetry and prose written in different styles, were aimed at all levels of society – from the aristocracy to the lower-class reader.

This major collection of books and autograph letters by Hannah More is held in the Special Collections of the William Andrews Clark Memorial Library, at the University of California Los Angeles. In recent years, with the benefit of the Ahmanson Foundation, the library has been collecting materials from the later eighteenth century to the early 1800s, and is now recognised by scholars as one of the great centres in the world for seventeenth and eighteenth century studies.

Our Consultant Editors are Professor Patricia Demers, Department of English, University of Alberta, Professor Anne Mellor, Department of English, UCLA, and Janice Devereux from Otago, New Zealand.

‘Hannah More’s Public Voice in Georgian Britain’ by Patricia Demers is a biographical essay introducing Hannah More, her work and times. Anne Mellor concentrates on religion and education, two key aspects of More’s life and work, in ‘Hannah More, Revolutionary Reformer’. Janice Devereux provides a transcription of More’s personal notebook entitled, ‘Reminiscencies’ (1827) containing anecdotes and table talk with personal friends and acquaintances to Barley Wood, including tales about Johnson, Mrs Garrick and Lord Monboddo. The ambition of Women, Morality and Advice Literature is to provide scholars with a broad body of materials for studying the work of Hannah More and her circle. It is a major resource to understanding More as playwright, poet, moralist, abolitionist and Evangelical reformer - her thoughts, feelings and emotions. We also offer a selection of material by her contemporaries, revealing current views and ideas on More’s outspoken writings, opinions and actions, including her admirers, her critics, her biographers and the Blue Stockings. Among her admirers were Dr Johnson, David Garrick and William Wilberforce, while her critics included Peter Pinder (John Walcot) and Archibald MacSarcasm (William Shaw). William Roberts was the first More biographer. Eminent Blue Stockings include Elizabeth Montagu, Anna Laetitia Barbauld and Elizabeth Carter.

Part 1: Manuscripts, First Editions and Rare Printed Works of Hannah More, and works inspired by her. The manuscripts held at the Clark Library represent a significant collection of More’s correspondence in existence – and contain some 180 autograph letters from Hannah More, and over 100 letters written to her, and as such represent an important primary source. As Patricia Demers states, ‘Here are the letters before [William] Roberts chopped and sanitised them!’

Correspondents include: Sir Thomas Ackland, John Hiley Addington, MP, Henrietta Maria Bowdler, Cadell and Davies, Hester Chapone, Joseph Cottle, David Garrick, Ann (Lovell) Gwatkin, Sarah Martha Holroyd, Mrs Ann Kennicott, Alexander Knox, Zachary Macaulay, Elizabeth Montagu, Sir Robert Peel, Sir William Weller Pepys, Lady Olivia Sparrow, James Stephen, Lord Teignmouth and Henry Thornton.

Also covered in the manuscript collection is the small pocket book (1794) containing More’s religious thoughts, and written with her characteristic pithiness of self-reproach. She says, ‘When shall I gain more self-possession?’ and ‘When shall I be able to do business with the world without catching the spirit of the world?’ Another important item is the notebook entitled Reminiscencies (1827) written by More in her later years. It contains thirty-seven pages of conversations with visitors to Barley Wood, and mentions some forty people including Sir Richard Hill, Rowland Hill, Elizabeth Carter, the Duke of Clarence, Robert Southey and Sir Joshua Reynolds. To aid readers we include a complete transcription of this manuscript by Janice Devereux.

The printed works cover a selection of first editions, rare printed works and works inspired by More. We also include later revised editions to understand how More responded to contemporary opinion and advice. For example, we include the first edition of Sir Eldred of the Bower as well as the second edition containing a stanza rewritten by Johnson. More’s works were available in other countries and we have selected some titles published in America and France.

Hannah More’s first writings to be published were her plays. These include Search after Happiness, 1773, a pastoral drama for student performers; The Inflexible Captive, 1775, a blank verse translation of the opera Attilio Regolo by Pietro Metastasio; Percy,1777, written with Garrick’s sponsorship and guidance, and Sacred Dramas, 1782, a closet drama for young ladies. In 1779 The Fatal Falsehood ran for only four nights, and More was accused of plagiarism by Hannah Cowley. We include Cowley’s play A Tragedy, by Mrs Cowley for readers to assess the charge of plagiarism.

While enjoying success as a playwright More began to publish her poetry. We include The Bleeding Rock and Sir Eldred of the Bower, 1776, two ballads about unrequited love; Ode to Dragon, 1777, Dragon was Garrick’s house dog; The Bas Bleu, 1786, a celebration of Mrs Elizabeth Vesey’s conversation parties with the Blue Stockings; Florio: A Tale for Fine Gentlemen and Fine Ladies, 1786; Slavery: A Poem, 1788, inspired by the abolitionists William Wilberforce and John Newton; and Bishop Bonner’s Ghost, 1789.

Early in her literary life More began to write essays on the reform of morals, and her first published essay, in what was to become an important crusade was titled, Essays on various subjects, principally designed for young ladies, 1777. More’s idea for moral reform was to start with the aristocracy as role models for the young and lower classes. Two such essays include: Thoughts on the Importance of the Manners of the Great, 1788, and An Estimate of the Religion of the Fashionable World, 1791. Essays on female education include: Strictures on the Modern System of Female Education, 1799 and Hints Towards Forming the Character of a Young Princess, 1805. Other important essays are also included in the publication.

Coelebs in Search of a Wife, Comprehending Observations on Domestic Habits and Manners, Religion and Morals was More’s only novel, and was first published anonymously in 1808. In the first nine months eleven editions were printed, and the work inspired some contemporaries to write their responses, for example Celia in Search of a Husband, [Medora G Byron] 1909, and Coelebs Deceived, [Harriet Corp] 1817. We also cover later editions of More’s novel, as well as further works in response to it.

Part 2: Gift Books, Memoirs, Pamphlets and the Cheap Repository Tracts. Part 2 begins with a selection of Gift Books


containing collections of writings by Hannah More and others. These include: The Poetical Works of Hannah More, 1835?, and The Amulet; or Christian and Literary Remembrancer, 1828, containing the first publication of two More poems, The Petition of the Negro Boy and The Bazaar.

Hannah More was a popular figure with Victorian biographers. William Roberts was the first More biographer, and he published the Memoirs of the life and correspondence of Hannah More in 1834, just one year after her death. The four volume biography has been criticised by some for heavy editing with a neglect to chronology, a misdating of letters and the distortion of More’s character by the ‘bowdlerizing of harmless colloquialisms’. Readers will be able to compare the biography with More’s original letters. Other biographers included are Henry Thompson, the resident clergyman at Barley Wood, Arthur Roberts, Thomas Taylor, S G Arnold, Helen C Knight, Anna J Buckland, and Charlotte M Yonge.

More attracted critics as well as admirers. The Blagdon Controversy between More and Thomas Bere concerned the issue of the value of educating the poor, and the question of whether it would lead to the insubordination of the lower classes. The controversy resulted in the publication of numerous pamphlets including the thoughts of William Shaw, Rector of Chelvey and ally of Bere, who wrote The Life of Hannah More. With a critical review of her writings, by the Revd Sir Archibald MacSarcasm, Bart.

The bitter dispute between More and her protégée Ann Yearsley, known as the ‘Bristol Milkwoman’ is also covered. We include Poems on several occasions by Ann Yearsley, 1785, and the fourth edition of this work, 1876, containing the indignant ‘Autobiographical Narrative’ of Yearsley attacking More for undue meddling in her life.

The Cheap Repository Tracts were an important and successful part of More’s moral and religious campaign ‘to improve the habits and raise the principles of the common people’. The tracts promoted a Christian middle-class ideology as normative for all classes of society. The stories and ballads are equally critical of the morally irresponsible aristocracy as of the working classes, with tales of all social types, upright and criminal. Tales included are Two Wealthy Farmers, or the History of Mr Bragwell, The Shepherd of Salisbury Plain and The History of Mary Wood, the Housemaid. Between 1794 and 1797 some one hundred tracts were issued, with a claimed circulation of two million. The tracts were printed bi-monthly in London, Bath, Edinburgh and Dublin, and collections of the tracts later became available in bound volumes, such as Stories for the Middle Ranks of Society, and Tales for the Common People, 1818, and Tales for Young Persons, 1839. We also include the pamphlet by Henry Thornton outlining A plan for establishing by subscription a repository of cheap publications, on religious and moral subjects: which will be sold at a half-penny, or a penny, and a few to exceed two pence each, nd (c.1794).

We know that More was also involved in the origin of the cheap repository tract series, and it used to be thought that publications marked ‘Z’ were the work of More. This has since been disputed, and it is now known that many marked ‘Z’ were probably not written by More, while some not marked ‘Z’ probably were. We also know that More helped to correct and revise other tracts. This microfilmed collection will help scholars to investigate these authorship disputes, and to understand the history of this series of publications. Patricia Demers describes this complete series of cheap repository tracts as a ‘treasure trove’ for scholars.

Part 3: Writings by eminent Blue Stockings. Finally we include a range of rare printed material by a number of More’s contemporaries: friends and fellow members of the Blue Stockings. The gatherings of the Blue Stockings were open to both sexes, however, it was the women who presided and set the tone. Elizabeth Montagu was ‘Queen of the Blues’, and was acknowledged as one of the great conversationalists of her age. In her correspondence she wrote of the polite learning, good manners and elegant conversation that marked the ‘blue stocking Philosophy’.

Among the Blue Stockings we feature are Elizabeth Carter, a former journalist and renowned classical scholar, with letters, poems, translations from Epictetus and printed correspondence with Catherine Talbot. Hester Chapone, an essayist, with miscellanies in prose and verse, A letter to a new-married lady, 1777, and Letters on the improvement of the mind, addressed to a young lady, 1787. Works by Elizabeth Montagu include An essay on the writings and genius of Shakespeare, 1777, and The Letters of Mrs Elizabeth Montagu, bound in four volumes, and published between 1809 and 1813. Catherine Talbot Essays on various subjects, 1772. Anna Laetitia Barbauld, poet and educationalist, whose works include Devotional pieces, compiled from the Psalms and the Book of Job, 1775 and Hymns in Prose for Children, 1821, 22nd edition. Also covered is Mrs Barbauld and her contemporaries; sketches of some eminent literary and scientific Englishwomen, 1877, plus her memoirs, pamphlets and other works. The works of Hester Thrale Piozzi includes Letters to and from the late Samuel Johnson, LLD, 1788 and Observations and reflections made in the course of a journey through France, Italy and Germany, 1789, as well as a sketch of her life, and passages from her diaries, letters and other writings. Associated works include A later Pepys, 1904, containing the correspondence of Sir William Weller Pepys, Bt, Master in Chancery 1758-1825, with Mrs Chapone, Mrs Hartley, Mrs Montagu, Hannah More and others.

The manuscript and printed works of Hannah More and her contemporaries covered in this publication will be an invaluable resource for scholars of English, History and Women’s Studies. More’s writings, personal relationships, philanthropic schemes, and political actions allow exploration and understanding of the culture of society during the later eighteenth century to the 1800s, including the education of women, Evangelical moral reform, sensibility, the short novel, the Blue Stockings, and abolition of the slave trade.

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'Hannah More's Public Voice in Georgian Britain' by Patricia Demers

Counter-revolutionary Bluestocking and Evangelical reformer, Hannah More (1745-1833) was one of the best selling authors in Georgian Britain. Her works, experimenting with every literary genre in a range of high and low styles, actually made this intelligent, ambitious crusader very wealthy. More’s will distributed her accumulated £30,000 to major causes supported throughout her long life: education, missionary evangelism, and abolitionism. As a spiritually egalitarian Tory who promoted radical causes such as opposition to slavery and the education of the poor, and as a social critic who could engage both elite and plebeian readers, Hannah More does not fit a conventional class or ideological stereotype. The range and complexity of her writing, which appeared both in individual publications over a span of five decades and in three approved editions of Collected Works during her lifetime, are critical to understanding the literary politics of Georgian life and to enlarging concepts of Romanticism, extending horizons to embrace the culture of female sensibility, social theory, and activism.

On account of her firm blending of High Church principles and social reform, as a sort of bimetallic strip, More attracted critics and scores of admirers, lay and clerical. Although she was the darling of female Victorian biographers, the most predictable invocation of her name today is as the conservative counterblast to Mary Wollstonecraft. These cultural warriors are more aligned than most readers realize. Both envisioned transforming the state by modelling governance on a responsible and strict domestic arrangement. Both emphasized the importance of reading and its role in the development of a culture. Both articulated what came to be known as a Romantic struggle for personal and national identity, and both made strong cases for the especial power of a woman’s mind. Like Wollstonecraft, More was largely self-educated. The fourth of five daughters of schoolmaster Jacob More and farmer’s daughter Mary (Grace) More, Hannah was a precocious, enthusiastic pupil. A brother, Jacob, who died in infancy, was born after Hannah and before her favourite sister, Martha, nicknamed Patty. The More family quarters in the Fishponds free school, in the parish of Stapleton close to Bristol, were cramped, however, Hannah quickly distinguished herself for cleverness in learning Latin and mathematics - so much so - that her father, fearful of creating a mere pedant, discontinued the lessons. Along with her siblings she learned French from the eldest sister, Mary, who returned from Bristol on the weekends to relay what she had been taught during the week. The girls’ fluency was helped when their father invited paroled French officers, prisoners during the Seven Years War, to the Fishponds home. When Mary, Betty, and Sally More moved to Bristol to establish a school for young ladies, opened in Trinity Street in 1758 with a later location in Park Street, Hannah and Patty followed, first as pupils and then as junior teachers. Unlike the Wollstonecraft sisters’ establishment at Newington Green, the school set up by the More women, offering instruction in French, reading, writing, arithmetic, and eventually dancing, was a success: “an upmarket school for the daughters of the affluent” (Stott 10).

None of the More sisters married. However, Hannah’s cancelled engagement became the target of snide comments from male critics who hid behind pseudonyms of “Peter Pindar” (John Wolcot), “Archibald MacSarcasm” (William Shaw), and “Sappho Search” (John Black) to attack More as the jilted bride or frustrated prude. Her dilatory suitor, William Turner, was the guardian of two girls at the Mores’ Park Street School. This old bachelor, twenty years her senior, invited the vivacious Hannah to accompany his wards to his country estate, called Belmont, in the village of Wraxall, south of Bristol; he proposed but postponed the wedding three times over six years. To save Hannah further embarrassment, though without her knowledge, Dr. James Stonhouse intervened, with the result that Turner settled an annuity of £200 on Hannah and bequeathed her £1,000. By not becoming the mistress of Belmont, Hannah became a writer. The critic “Peter Pindar” resorted to a form of clumsy and unfeeling psychoanalysis to explain More’s tartness about bad love poetry: “Somewhat has wounded thee, ’tis very plain! / Revenge, I fear, lies rankling in thine heart” (Works 5:201). What did lie in her heart about this matter Hannah never disclosed. The theatre was Hannah More’s initial platform and love. Her first publication, The Search after Happiness (1773), was written for student performers when she was an eighteen-year-old teacher at her sisters’ Park Street school and published when she was twenty-eight. A sober piece of juvenilia, this “pastoral drama” in rhyming couplets introduces four girls, all articulately aware of their faults, who seek the guidance of the widow Urania; through sententious nuggets in dialogue and song they are exhorted to realise that “the fairest symmetry of form or face / From intellect receives its highest grace” and to excel “In that best art - the art of living well” (Works I: 278-79). The school play had had a long tradition in the education of boys (with Ralph Roister Doister written for performance by boys at Eton and Gammer Gurton’s Needle for boys at Cambridge); More’s play, which went through thirteen editions before its inclusion in the Collected Works of 1801, was one of the first to cater for girls. Mary Russell Mitford fondly recalled “the English teacher and her favourite play . . . amongst the first, the gayest, and the tenderest of [her] school-day recollections” (Mitford 165). More’s idea of putting moral treatises into action with young performers was also prophetic. A translation of Madame de Genlis’s Le théâtre à l’usage des jeunes personnes (1779-80) was printed by More’s own publisher, Cadell, in 1781. With lighter touches in their dramatic pictures of family life and rowdiness, Maria Edgeworth, Barbara Hofland Hoole, and Anna Jameson wrote affecting plays for young performers. Due in part to the successful reviews of Search and mainly to the interventions of Bristol Theatre Royal manager William Powell, Blagdon poet and clergyman John Langhorne, and Drury Lane impresario David Garrick, More’s three tragedies were produced in Bath, Exeter, London, and Bristol over the next five years. Though derivative, her plays are instructive experiments in the art of adaptation and expression of emotional torment. Each tragedy spotlights the dilemma of a daughter who espouses noble resolve but ultimately succumbs to emotional collapse in a world hostile to her virtue. These daughters, however, leave a mark because of the power of their feeling. The Inflexible Captive, her blank verse translation of Pietro Metastasio’s opera Attilio Regolo which premiered in Bath in 1775, examines the relationship between the Roman warrior Regulus, held captive in Carthage, and his daughter Attilia, who attempts unsuccessfully to secure his release. With Garrick’s sponsorship and textual editing Percy, which reset Pierre-Laurent Buirette de Belloy’s Gabrielle de Vergy in the context of the Douglas and Percy families from Percy’s Reliques, opened at Covent Garden in December 1777 and enjoyed a remarkable nineteen performances. Elwina is the dutiful daughter who capitulates to her father’s request to marry a man she does not love and justifies her obedience to her lover Percy by recalling “the cruel tyranny” of a father’s tears: “If thou has felt, and hast resisted these, / Then thou mayst curse my weakness; but if not, / Thou canst not pity, for thou canst not judge” (Works 2:198). More’s last tragedy, The Fatal Falsehood, ran for only four nights in 1779, during which time she was distracted as much by the death of Garrick as by the groundless charges of plagiarism from Hannah Cowley. The self-possession of Emmelina, the jilted heiress of The Fatal Falsehood, impresses her father as the response of “a Roman matron . . . and not a feeble girl” (Works 2: 276), but this daughter, too, sinks into despair and death at the hands of “the afflicting angel” (Works 2: 303). A combination of mourning, distress at the scandalous suggestion of plagiarism, and continuing ambivalence about the instructive potential of the theatre probably led to More’s decision to renounce the stage as an appropriate medium. Her only other theatrical work was the treatment of biblical topics, Sacred Dramas (1782), which she designed as a closet drama for young readers. Although she included the tragedies in all the Collected Works, she confessed in the Preface to the 1801 edition that her “youthful course of reading, and early habits of society and conversation” had encouraged her “to entertain that common hope that the stage, under certain regulations, might be converted into a school of virtue,” a hope which she later dismissed as “delusive” (Works 2: 125).


Her début quarto as a poet, in 1776, for which her publisher paid handsomely, consisted of two ballads about unrequited love, “The Bleeding Rock; or, The Metamorphosis of a Nymph into a Stone” and “Sir Eldred of the Bower.” The former legend fancifully explains the red spots of sandstone in the rock in Failand (which becomes “Fairy Land”), a hamlet close to Bristol, and the latter retells the ballad of Gil Morice. In couplets and alternate-rhyme quatrains More’s narratives are didactic. Both poems feature virtuous women done to death by rash men. The location of the action of “The Bleeding Rock” is close to the estate of More’s on-again, off-again suitor, and hence it has been construed as a reflection of her own situation. But it is unlikely to have been a “protest” (Jones 17) poem about ill treatment. If More made no mention of the circumstance - however tragic or liberating for her it may have been - in her private letters, it seems implausible that she would have worn her heart on her sleeve in a public poem. “The Bas-Bleu” was More’s confident, spirited exercise celebrating Mrs Elizabeth Vesey’s conversation parties. Her support for “Vesey’s plastic genius” was a witty reflection of both the haphazard arrangement of the furniture and her hostess’s deafness. More’s vision of “sober Duchesses,” “chaste Wits,” “Whigs and Tories in alliance,” and “learn’d Antiquaries” conveyed the utopian challenge of the Bluestocking enterprise. Here was a female writer insisting on her role as “the guardian of mass sociomoral culture” (Ross 203). Her appeal to mercantilism was shrewd but highminded: “intellectual ore” and “education’s moral mint” must be transmitted by the “commerce” of conversation, “whose precious merchandize is MIND” (Works 1: 291-305). After having circulated in manuscript throughout the Bluestocking network, “The Bas-Bleu” was published in 1786, along with “Florio: A Tale for Fine Gentlemen and Fine Ladies,” a gentle Horatian satire on city and country manners. Following her meeting in 1787 with the anti-slavery politician William Wilberforce (1759-1833) and the former first mate of slave ships who had become an ordained priest John Newton (1725-1807), More wrote “Slavery; a Poem” (1788) to assist Wilberforce’s parliamentary campaign. She composed it hurriedly (within two weeks) to support the passage of a bill that would limit the number of slaves transported to British colonies in the West Indies. The bill passed, although the parliamentary campaign for full emancipation was protracted; her poem was circulated widely in anti-slavery societies throughout Britain. She worked with Lady Margaret Middleton to have Thomas Southerne’s dramatization of Aphra Behn’s Oroonoko produced in London at the same time. More showed a critical awareness of the support of slavery by both the Church of England and George III; with compelling strength the poem’s female abolitionist voice exposed and indicted greed, covetousness, and oppression. The pathos and sentiment of her depiction of the black as ‘other’ invite comparison with contemporary female abolitionist discourse by Sarah Trimmer, Helen Maria Williams, Ann Yearsley, and Anna Laetitia Barbauld as well as the slave narrative of Olaudah Equiano’s autobiography published in 1789. Although More had withdrawn from the world of theatre, she did continue annual visits to London and maintained an alert insider’s knowledge of the fashionable world, as evidenced in the hard-hitting essays calling for reform: Thoughts on the Importance of the Manners of the Great (1788) and An Estimate of the Religion of the Fashionable World (1791). Writing from the distance of her Cowslip Green retreat in Wrington, close to Bristol, More deftly blended first-hand observation with the bold declaration that “reformation must begin with the GREAT.” Her knowledge of apparently harmless Sunday amusements was wide and detailed; among the deceiving attempts to “patch up a precarious and imperfect happiness in this world,” she commented on hairdressers, dressmakers, card games, and the effusions of “transient sensibility.” Non-conformity to the world, especially the world of fashion, luxury, and bon ton, and consistency in “principles of the heart” are basic criteria in More’s horizon of judgement. Pithy dicta (“An extempore Christian is a ridiculous character”) also dotted her assured and unapologetic social theorizing. Acerbic judgement and a somewhat na?ve sensibility coexisted in More, making her meliorist or philanthropic schemes easy targets for criticism as paternalistic instruments promoting subalternism. When in 1785 she started a subscription campaign among the gentry and aristocracy to publish the work of the impoverished milkmaid poet, Ann Yearsley, More insisted on control of the proceeds in a way that angered and ultimately alienated the woman she had tried to help. “[W]hat many of these middle-class and patrician patrons of Yearsley consistently failed to understand was the sense of ignominy and almost self-hatred that their support sometimes engendered in her” (Felsenstein 371). With a similar saving impulse to intervene and control, Hannah and Patty More courageously established, oversaw, and inspected eleven Sunday Schools in the poorest Mendip villages, beginning with Cheddar in 1789 and extending over the next decade to Shipham, Rowberrow, Sandford, Banwell, Congresbury, Yatton, Nailsea, Axbridge, Blagdon, and Wedmore. Not only did they rent locations and hire teachers, but the More sisters - even in their frail old age - regularly visited three or four schools each Sunday, fund-raised for the schools, and supported from their own purse the annual large-scale picnic of the Mendip Feasts. Although More’s rhetoric of authority and understanding of didacticism and poverty are subjects of critical reconsideration today (by Elizabeth Howells, Jane Nardin, Alan Richardson, Mona Scheuermann, and K D M Snell among others), her most recent biographer, Anne Stott, observes that More’s work for the immortal welfare of the Mendip people, which involved consistent attempts at being popular, “went far beyond the reinforcement of the social order” and actually proved “a surprising agent of social mobility” (Stott 119, 168). More’s acclaim as a writer of popular literature and her career as a propagandist was launched with the publication of a provocative, widely distributed poetic dialogue, Village Politics, in 1792. A riposte to Thomas Paine’s The Rights of Man, which had outsold Burke’s Reflections on the Revolution in France, Village Politics was ostensibly penned by the country carpenter Will Chip. Jack the blacksmith and Tom the mason talk about freedom, happiness and rights, exactly mimicking the topics in Paine. Jack, the master of terse remarks, always has the upper hand over malleable but inquisitive Tom. The upholding of hierarchy and paternalistic benevolence shows the remarkable degree of More’s opposition to dissent and her association of restlessness with drinking, licentiousness, riots, and bonfires.

The Cheap Repository for Moral and Religious Tracts (1795-97), the monthly publication of tales, ballads, and tracts, which More managed and to which she contributed substantially (under the pseudonym “Z”), is the counteroffensive to revolution that is most immediately associated with her name today. With the execution of Louis XVI in January and Marie Antoinette in October 1793 and the declaration of war on England in the same year, the sense of alarm and upheaval about the dissemination of revolutionary ideals prompted the Bishop of London’s enlisting of More to lead the charge against disorder. He exhorted that she dispense her “porter in pewter pots not in silver tankards” (Roberts 2: 427). More’s plan for the Cheap Repository, “to improve the habits and raise the principles of the common people,… not only to counteract vice and profligacy on the one hand, but error, discontent, and false religion on the other” (Works, 3: vii), was pragmatic and daring. Although her satirist’s eye exposed hypocrisy in all social classes, she made no bones about hoping to abate the relish “among the inferior ranks . . . for those corrupt and inflammatory publications which the consequences of the French Revolution have been so fatally pouring in upon us” (Works, 3: viii). Her skilful propaganda, “a significant channel for female reformist impulse” (Myers 269), involved a deliberate expropriation of popular culture, representing what has been called “a fantasy of social order” (Kelly 153). Her stories of colliers, farmers, shepherds, merchants, sailors, barmaids, poachers, philosophers, and fortune tellers, embracing a complete span from the upright to the criminal, display the often creative tensions between enabling and containing, perceptive and authoritarian, populist and fantastic aspects of More’s contributions.


The climax of More’s accomplishments in the 1790s was the publication of her Strictures on the Modern System of Female Education (1799), the most comprehensive Georgian treatment of the education of women of the middle and upper ranks, their role in cultural formation, and their duties to act as engaged social beings. In this twenty-one-chapter polemic More’s combative, astringent principles of reform permeate every part of the argument about the cultivation of women’s intellect. Strictures went through seven editions in its first year, with five separate American editions in its first decade. Though praised by Elizabeth Carter, Hester Chapone, Charles Burney, Elizabeth Montagu, and Anna Barbauld, More was criticized by the Reverend Charles Daubeny and the pseudonymous “Sappho Search,” “Archibald MacSarcasm,” and “Peter Pindar” for what they considered the borrowed, misunderstood, or meandering aspect of her text. “Sappho Search” accused her of envying Wollstonecraft: “In vigorous expression, and passion’s true tone, / Perhaps she was piqued to be greatly outshone” (Search 23). More did not temper or change her views; on the contrary, she amplified the second edition in the space of a few weeks, and let others rebut her critics. Though Wollstonecraft’s Vindication of the Rights of Woman preceded Strictures by seven years, it is worth noting how closely related the main ideas of these female crusaders are, despite the palpable differences in rhetoric between the impulsive hurry of Wollstonecraft and the measured periodicity of More. They shared a prescient mistrust of novels, yet each wrote an idiosyncratic example of the genre. Both made resoundingly effective cases for the indispensability of moral freedom. This expansive treatment of women’s education eclipsed and replaced More’s earlier Essays on Various Subjects (1777), whose severity she realized by refusing to approve any publication beyond 1791. Strictures shares some ideological allegiances with essays by contemporaries Hester Chapone, Catharine Macaulay, Mary Wollstonecraft, and Priscilla Wakefield. Georgian conduct books by James Fordyce, John Gregory, John Bennett, and Thomas Gisborne supply misogynous contrasts to More’s passionate commitments that played a crucial role in the changing notions of femininity and the emergence of modern notions of subjectivity and gender. Though she deliberately avoided “education” in the title, More’s two-volume Hints towards Forming the Character of a Young Princess (1805), tailored for Princess Charlotte and for the situation in the nation at a time when Bonaparte had just been crowned emperor in France, offers praise of and instructive cautions about the responsible moral imperatives of monarchy.

At the age of sixty-three Hannah More wrote her only novel, Cœlebs in Search of a Wife, Comprehending Observations on Domestic Habits and Manners, Religion and Morals (1808). This originally anonymous bestseller went through eleven editions in its first nine months. A hybrid of extended conversations, interleaved instructive stories, and remarkable character studies, Cœlebs is a novel of ideas, Morean ideas, about family dynamics, courtship, and the needed reform and evangelization of English society. Her twenty-four-year-old bachelor narrator, who styles himself “Cœlebs” (unmarried), encounters fashionable, nubile women in London before he visits the Hampshire home of his deceased father’s friend, where he meets his ideal partner, Lucilla Stanley. In the nineteenth-century Eden of Stanley Grove, More’s re-cast Adam and Eve find one another. More’s new Eve exhibits a winning practicality. In her careful cultivation of languages, social responsibility, and domestic savoir faire Lucilla shows none of the anti-intellectualism associated with the domestic woman. Her non-doting parents consider her a valued friend, and she often moderates the narrator’s priggish, censorious opinions. More leads the reader to realize that, as a Christian, Cœlebs is ultimately subject to the same authority as his future wife. In this novel about the meeting of two minds, opinion and talk supersede action and intrigue, yet More adroitly stages debates, interludes and confessions. Concerned to show the ways in which a couple becomes, to use her own distinction from Strictures, “matched” as opposed to merely “joined,” she relies on a rhetorical strategy tested and perfected in her plays, poetry, essays, and tracts: the instructive contrast. In Cœlebs this device allows More to expand the predictable roster of characters, from the wealthy bachelor, his perfect companion, and her eminently sensible parents as well as high-spirited siblings, to include satirical portraits of society matrons and their daughters, testy and irreverent challengers of the Evangelicalism of Mr Stanley and Cœlebs, and the free-spirited, independent Miss Sparkes, who, in kicking against the pricks, poses unanswered questions about the restrictions of women’s education. Cœlebs invites comparison with the lessons by negative example of Sir Thomas Bertram’s education of his daughters and adopted niece in Austen’s Mansfield Park. More effectively “dismantles the microdynamic of hierarchy that disparages women’s capabilities” (Snook 136). By uniting evangelicalism and feminism in fiction she supplies “an essential link in the history of women’s public voice as it came down to the Victorians” (Krueger 119). There is no hint that More was planning to launch a career as a religious novelist; however, some readers speculate that she was testing the market and was rebuffed by the criticism she encountered - from her friend Zachary Macaulay, editor of the official journal of the Evangelical Anglicans at Clapham, the Christian Observer, and from Sydney Smith’s dismissal in the Edinburgh Review. After the diversion - or, trial balloon - of Cœlebs More continued writing in her sixties and seventies, producing four book-length essays on religious topics: Practical Piety (1811), Christian Morals (1812), An Essay on the Character and Practical Writings of Saint Paul (1815), and The Spirit of Prayer (1825). Her idiosyncratic study of Saint Paul is the one in which More is most at ease and most revealing. Though she admits her deficiencies in Hebrew, she attends to the writerly aspect of the epistles, the “practical inferences” of their use of metaphor, and the ways in which conviction becomes the soul of eloquence. Daring to comment on the practical applications of biblical scholarship and theology, disciplines from which her sex was excluded, supplies a fitting close to the career of this determined, single-minded, and accomplished reformer.

WORKS CITED

Demers, Patricia. The World of Hannah More. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1996.

Felsenstein, Frank. “Ann Yearsley and the Politics of Patronage The Thorp Arch Archive: Part 1.” Tulsa Studies in Women’s Literature 21.2 (2002): 347-392.

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Jones, M G. Hannah More. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1952.

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Krueger, Christine. The Reader’s Repentance: Women Preachers, Women Writers and Nineteenth-Century Social Discourse. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1992.

Mitford, Mary Russell. Our Village; Sketches of Rural Character and Scenery. 2nd ed. London: G. B. Whittaker, 1827.

More, Hannah. The Works. 11 vols. London: T Cadell, 1830.


Myers, Mitzi. “Hannah More’s Tracts for the Times: Social Reform and Female Ideology.” Fetter’d or Free: British Women Novelists, 1670-1815. Ed. M A Schofield and C Macheski, 264-84. Athens: Ohio University Press, 1986.

Nardin, Jane. “Hannah More and the Rhetoric of Educational Reform.” Women’s History Review 10 (2001): 211-27.

Pindar, Peter [John Wolcot]. The Works. 5 vols. London: J. Walker, 1794-1801.

Roberts, William. Memoirs of the Life and Correspondence of Mrs. Hannah More. 4 vols. London: R B Seeley and W Burnside, 1834

Ross, Marlon. The Contours of Masculine Desire: Romanticism and the Rise of Women’s Poetry. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1989.

Richardson, Alan. “Women Poets and Colonial Discourse: Teaching More and Yearsle on the Slave Trade.” Approaches to Teaching British Women Poets of the Romantic Period. Ed. S C Behrendt. 75-79. New York: Modern Language Association of America , 1997.

Search, Sappho [John Black]. A Poetical Review of Miss Hannah More’s Strictures on Female Education. In a series of Anapestic Epistles. London: T Hurst, 1800.

Scheuermann, Mona. “Ferocious Countenance: The Upper Classes Look at the Poor.” Age of Johnson 11 (2000): 53-79.

Snell, K D M. “The Sunday-School Movement in England and Wales: Child Labour, Denominational Control and Working-Class Culture.” Past and Present 164 (1999): 122-68.

Snook, Edith. “Eve and More: The Citations of Paradise Lost in Hannah More’s Cœlebs in Search of a Wife.” English Studies in Canada 26.2 (2001): 127-54.

Stott, Anne. Hannah More; The First Victorian. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003.

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'Hannah More, Revolutionary Reformer' by Anne K. Mellor

Hannah More was the most influential woman living in England during her day. Through her writings, political actions and personal relationships, she carried out a radical program for social change in the existing British social and political order. Rather than promoting the political revolution urged by the French Jacobins or the proletarian revolution of the workers later envisioned by Marx, Hannah More devoted her life to reforming the culture of the English nation from within. What she desired was a “revolution in manners” or cultural mores, a radical change in the moral behaviour of the nation. Writing in an era which she considered one of “superannuated impiety” (Works II : 316), of notable moral decline marked by “ the excesses of luxury, the costly diversions, and the intemperate dissipation in which numbers of professing Christians indulge themselves” (II : 309), More set out to lead “a moral revolution in the national manners and principles” that would be “analogous to that great political one which we hear so much and so justly extolled” (II : 296).

More fought her moral revolution on four fronts. Confronted with the decadent practices of the late eighteenth-century aristocracy - with codes of behaviour that licensed libertinism, adultery, gambling, duelling and fiscal irresponsibility - she first attacked the high-born members of “Society.” Although generally overlooked, the Cheap Repository Tracts of the mid-1790s contain as trenchant a critique of the morally irresponsible aristocracy as of the revolutionary workers. In “Village Politics,” for instance, Jack Anvil the Blacksmith, while warning workers against the evils of violent rebellion, at the same time recognises the evils perpetrated by the “great folks”: “I don’t pretend to say they are a bit better than they should be … let them look to that; they’ll answer for that in another place. To be sure, I wish they’d set us a better example about going to church, and those things: … They do spend too much, to be sure, in feastings and fandangoes” (II : 230).

In two major tracts addressed directly to the upper classes, Thoughts on the Importance of the Manners of the Great to General Society (1788) and An Estimate of the Religion of the Fashionable World (1790), Hannah More directly condemned the hypocrisy of the “merely nominal” Christians among the aristocracy. Since the rich and powerful are perforce the role models for the lower classes, they have an increased social responsibility to set a good example, More argued. She pointed out all the ways in which the leaders of her time were failing in that civic responsibility: they did not attend Church, or did so half-heartedly, combining Sunday services with visiting, concerts, and hair-dressing; they gambled, even the women, at card-parties in their own homes, using their winnings to tip the hostess’s servants; they engaged in a sustained practice of social lying, forcing servants to tell visitors they were “not at home”; they tolerated adultery, especially for husbands; and they systematically failed to develop an appreciation of what was for More at the center of personal and social fulfilment - “family enjoyment, select conversation, and domestic delights” (II : 285). Their behavior thus corrupted rather than educated their children and servants, forcing these servants to encourage gambling and to lie, cheat and steal.

More calculatedly attributes the amoral practices of the rich to their excessive dependence on French fashions and behaviours. By identifying aristocratic English society with France, at the very moment of the French Revolution, she subtly defines the British aristocrats as potential Jacobins, corrupted from within by their adherence to French Philosophy - the anti-Christian scepticism of Voltaire - and to French culture. By classifying upper-class social practices not merely as amoral or non-Christian but also as French, More undercut the aristocracy’s claim to both political and social authority at the time of the Terror. If the upper classes were to rule the British nation, they must become more English - which More defined as devoutly Christian, rigorously Sabbatarian, pious, chaste, honest and benevolent in thought and deed. More’s clarion call for the reform of the manners of the rich was heard by many of the aristocracy and landed gentry. As David Spring had documented, an increase in aristocratic morality in the 1820s could be directly traced to the writings of More and the other members of the Clapham Sect of Evangelicals. Linda Colley had also concluded that the attack on the “cultural treason” of the elite mounted by More and others produced a new ideology of the British ruling class: one marked by “public probity,” “regular church-going and conventional sexual morality,” and “ostentatious uxoriousness” (Colley 188-189).

More’s attack on the lax morals and irresponsibility of the upper classes was also aimed at the Church of England. As Alan Gilbert has documented, by the end of the eighteenth century the Church of England was in severe decline. More’s impassioned pleas to the Anglican clergy to play a central role in bringing about the moral reform of the nation inspired numerous members of the clergy to join the Evangelical branch of the Church of England - by 1830, over one-quarter of its clergy were openly identified with the Clapham Sect Evangelicals. Their efforts, both as resident clergy and as missionaries, effectively re-vitalised the Anglican Church, absorbing much of the religious energy that had previously flowed to the New Dissent.

Equally aggressively, Hannah More attempted to reform the working classes of England. In her propagandistic Cheap Repository Tracts explicitly aimed at workers, of which she claimed over two million were sold or otherwise distributed in 1795 alone (Spinney 296), Hannah More hammered home her message: if workers would become sober, industrious, thrifty, healthy and religious, then they could rise into the lower rungs of the bourgeoisie. By providing numerous examples of workers who financially bettered their lot in life through sober industry - together with counter-examples of drunken, lazy, immoral workers like Black Giles the Poacher and his wife Tawney Rachel the thieving fortune-teller who end up in jail or transported or dead, cruelly neglecting and abusing their children along the way - More attempted to persuade the working classes that they too had a stake in an economically prosperous and politically stable England. In effect, she told the workers, you can have the material rewards your employers have; you can become the middle class. And at the same time you can save your Christian souls.

To bring about the reformation of the working classes in a systematic way, More turned to the charity Sunday School, an institution recently initiated with success in Gloucester by Richard Raikes, as her primary instrument of social change. Between 1789 and 1799 she and her sister Martha established nine Sunday Schools amongst the rural poverty and social depravity of the Mendips Region. Described at length in Martha More’s Journal, these nine schools educated over a thousand children and adults a year, Designed to bring literacy, Christianity, sobriety, industry and good health to the rural poor, combining vocational training with religious instruction, these Sunday Schools have been widely criticised as exercises in the “politicisation” of children, even by so judicious a historian as Linda Colley (Colley 226). But as Thomas Laqueur had demonstrated in detail in his study of Sunday Schools and working class culture, these schools in fact functioned to improve and to empower the working-classes. “What appears to have been an imposition from above,” he concludes, “was, in fact, a way in which those who spent their lives in disorder, uncertainty, dirt and disease brought some order into this environment. Cleanliness in body, punctuality, neatness in dress and in one’s home, and orderliness in one’s lifestyle were very much part of the fabric of ‘respectable’ working class society and by no means inhibited those engaged in their pursuit from attacking the repressive aspects of the contemporary political and economic system; rather the reverse” (Laqueur 170, his italics). As Laqueur points out, “a highly developed culture of self-help, self-improvement and respectability, which nurtured many of the political and trade-union leaders of the working class, emerged from the late 18th and the 19th century Sunday Schools” (Laqueur 155).


By teaching the workers to read, Hannah More’s Mendips Sunday Schools for the first time made available to these rural poor the social world of Evangelical middle-class culture, a culture which they on the whole eagerly embraced. Both the Cheap Repository Tracts and the Sunday Schools strongly asserted a Christian and bourgeois ideology as normative for the entire nation. Together with the wide-spread growth of voluntary philanthropic societies in the early 19th century, they helped to stabilise a class system now controlled, not by the landed gentry and the “old corruption,” but by a growing and newly empowered commercial and professional middle class which by 1800 included, according to Jonathan Barry, over half of the population.

Fundamental to Hannah More’s project of social revolution was a transformation of the role played by woman of all classes in the formation of national culture. Unlike Mary Wollstonecraft, who argued that the two sexes were in all significant aspects the same, Hannah More insisted on the innate difference between the sexes. To women she assigns a greater delicacy of perception and feeling and above all, a greater moral purity and capacity for virtue. Men on the other hand have better judgement, based on their wider experience of the public world; at the same time their manners are coarse, with “rough angles and asperities” (VI : 266). If a “revolution in manners” is to occur, then, it must be carried out by women.

But first women must be educated to understand their proper function in society. More’s Strictures on the Modern System of Female Education (1799) lays out her program for the education of “excellent women” (III : 200): a systematic development of the innate female capacity for virtue and piety through a judicious reading of the Bible, devotional tracts and serious literature, extended by rational conversation and manifested in the active exercise of compassion and generosity. The goal of More’s educational project for woman is no less than a cultural redefinition of female virtue. As summed up in that “pattern daughter … [who] will make a pattern wife,” Lucilla Stanley, the heroine of More’s novel, Coelebs in Search of a Wife (1808: 246), female virtue is equated with rational intelligence, modesty and chastity, a sincere commitment to spiritual values and the Christian religion, an affectionate devotion to one’s family, active service on behalf of one’s community, and an insistence on keeping promises. More’s concept of female virtue thus stands in stark contrast to the prevailing cultural definition of the ideal woman as one who possessed physical beauty and numerous accomplishments and who could effectively entice a man of substance into marriage.

More’s concept of female virtue also stands in opposition to the prevailing masculine concept of virtue as “devotion to the public good,” and “the practice … of relations of equality between citizens” could no longer be reconciled with the “ideals” of commerce which required an exchange between non-equals, credit and dependence. Hence masculine “virtue” was redefined as the possession of property and “the practice and refinement of polished manners,” manners which would engage the trust and credit of like-minded men of property (Pocock 41-8). This specifically male “commercial humanism” seemed to More to be soul-less and mechanistic, substituting the form of good manners for the substance. Female virtue was not a matter of credit and exchange but rather a matter of spiritual conviction, sincere compassion for the welfare of others, humility and self-sacrifice.

Embedded in More’s program for the education of women was a new career for middle-class women, namely, a sustained and increasingly institutionalised effort to relieve the sufferings of the less fortunate. As Lucilla Stanley’s mother defines this career: “Charity is the calling of a lady; the care of the poor is her profession” (Coelebs 138; More’s italics). More here conceptualises for the first time the career of what we would now call the “social worker,” the organised and corporate - as opposed to the spontaneous and individualistic - practice of philanthropy. As exemplified by Lucilla Stanley, this profession involves spending one day each week collecting “necessaries” for the poor - food, clothing, medicine - and two evenings each week visiting them in their own cottages where she can best determine “their wants and their characters” (Coelebs 63).

In her Strictures on Female Education, More advocates a more institutionalised philanthropy, a “regular systematical good” resulting in a “broad stream of bounty … flowing through and refreshing whole districts” (Strictures III 270). She urges her women readers to participate actively in the organisation of voluntary benevolent societies and in the foundation of hospitals, orphanages, Sunday Schools and all-week charity or “ragged” schools for the education and relief of the poor. And her call was heard: literally thousands of voluntary societies sprang up in the opening decades of the nineteenth century to serve the needs of every imaginable group of sufferers, from the Bristol Orphan Asylum to the Sailors Home, from the Poor Printers Fund to the Pensioners at Wrington, to name only four among the 71 charities to which More herself contributed generously in her will.

More’s Evangelical demand that women demonstrate their commitment to God through a life of active service for the first time gave her middle-class sisters a mission in life, the personal and financial support of institutionalised charities, from orphanages, work-houses, and hospitals to asylums and prisons. These philanthropic activities contributed directly to the emancipation and increasing social empowerment of women, as F K Prochaska has documented in his superb study of women and philanthropy in nineteenth-century England.

Women were particularly suited to the active exercise of charity because, according to More, they possessed greater sensibility or active compassion for the sufferings of others than do men. Secondly, women were more versed in what More calls “practical piety,” the immediate assessment and relief of the day-to-day requirements of the poor, the sick, the dying. Finally, women who had learned how to manage a household properly could more readily extend those skills to the Sunday School or workhouse.

Implicit both in More’s Strictures on Female Education and in her novel Coelebs is the argument that household management or domestic economy provides the best model for the management of the state of national economy. As Mr Stanley explains, “Retrenchments, to be efficient, must be applied to great objects. The true [domestic] economist will draw in by contracting the outline, by narrowing the bottom, by cutting off with an unsparing hand costly superfluities, which affect not comfort but cherish vanity” (Coelebs 184). By assigning to women - and their mentor Eve - the capacity to develop and execute a fiscally responsible plan of household management which satisfies the physical, emotional and religious needs of all the members of the household (servants as well as family members), More effectually defines women as the best managers of the national estate, as the true patriots.

It is in the role of mother that More’s ideal of the well-educated, fiscally responsible and morally pure woman finds her fulfilment. But it is crucial to recognise that More’s mother is the mother, not just of her own family, but of the nation as a whole. As More affirms in Strictures on Female Education,

“the great object to which you, who are or may be mothers, are more especially called, is the education of your children … To YOU is made over the awfully important trust of infusing the first principles of piety into the tender minds of those who may one day be called to instruct, not families merely, but districts; to influence, not individuals, but senates. Your private


exertions may at this moment be contributing to the future happiness, your domestic neglect, to the future ruin, of your country.” (Strictures III 44).

In emphasizing women’s public role as mothers of the nation, More necessarily downplayed their more private sexual roles as females. More has been roundly criticised, by Nancy Cott and many others, for insisting on a new ideal of female “passionlessness.” But this is too one-sided a reading of More’s campaign. More does not urge women to deny their sexual desires, but only to channel them into marriage with a morally as well as sexually desirable partner. As Michael Mason has recognised, “To Hannah More belongs the distinction of having written at greater length explicitly about sex than any other leading Evangelical” (Mason 77) in her novel Coelebs in Search of a Wife.

In making the private household the model for the national household, Hannah More effectively erased any meaningful distinction between the private and the public sphere. She insists that it is women, not men, who are most responsible for the progress of civilisation as such. Affirming the dominant role of women in establishing “true taste, right principle, and genuine feeling” in the culture of a nation, More assigns to women the primary labor in the production of what Norbert Elias has since called the “civilising process.”

Essential to More’s project of national reformation is the assumption that the “public revolution of manners” (Preface to Works I: ix) she demands must be led by women, and in particular by one woman, the supposed future Queen of England, Princess Charlotte. Her Hints towards forming the Character of a Young Princess (1805), like Thomas Elyot’s Book of the Governor and Machiavelli’s The Prince, is a treatise on the nature of good government. Part of the wisdom which the future female monarch must learn is the limits of her own royal “prerogatives.” Even as she must stand firm in endorsement of her own religious beliefs and intellectual understanding, she must acknowledge that her power is constrained by the laws of the British constitution which guarantee the freedom of her people. Tracking the history of fallen empires, More argues that the British constitution is uniquely “favourable to virtue,” congenial with religion, and conducive to happiness” because it seeks to provide for the “well-being of the whole community … by effectually securing the rights, the safety, the comforts of every individual” (IV: 67-8). More is here defining a concept of the reformed British nation as based on an ethic of care, a Christian concern to meet the needs of all members of the community.

By far the most important duty of the Princess is to set the moral tone of the nation through her own example and through the judicious selection of the bishops who are to lead the Church. In this role, as the moral leader of England, More suggests, “ the just administration of this peculiar power may be reasonably expected as much, we had almost said even more, from a female, than from a monarch, of the other sex” (IV : 361). By making women the potential embodiment of what Mitzi Myers has called “aggressive virtue” (Myers 209), by addressing her tract on good Christian government to a woman, Hannah More specifically called on women to save the nation.

And her demand for a “revolution in manners” was answered. As I have argued at length elsewhere (Mellor 1-38), the career of Hannah More, who was virtually canonised as an “Anglican Saint” after her death in 1833, made the moralistic reign - not of Charlotte - but of More’s equally devoted disciple, Victoria - inevitable. After the Evangelical campaigns of the early nineteenth century, the British public would not have tolerated the rule of another George IV: a fiscally irresponsible libertine devoted to luxury, stylistic display and dissipation. The new British nation required that its royal monarch be economically prudent, decorous in appearance and taste, and above all moral. And after the career of Hannah More, the physical embodiment of this new national morality had to be female: only a woman, in this case Queen Victoria, could fully represent British national virtue, that Christian virtue that More had everywhere in her writings gendered as female. Only a woman could become the Mother of the Nation, Britannia herself.

WORKS CITED

Colley, Linda. Britons - Forging the Nation 1707-1837. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1992.

Cott, Nancy F. “Passionlessness: An Interpretation of Victorian Sexual Ideology, 1790-1850.” Signs 4 (1978) 219-236.

Elias, Norbert. The Civilising Process, trans Edmund Jephcott, 2 Vols: The History of Manners and Power and Civility. New York: Pantheon Books, 1982.

Gilbert, Alan D. Religion and Society in Industrial England - Church, Chapel and Social Change, 1740-1914. London and New York: Longman, 1976.

Laqueur, Thomas Walter. Religion and Respectability – Sunday Schools and Working Class Culture, 1780-1850. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1976.

Mason, Michael. The Making of Victorian Sexual Attitudes. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 1994.

Mellor, Anne. Mothers of the Nation - Women’s Political Writing in Britain, 1780-1830. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2000/2002.

Mendip Annals: or, A Narrative of the Charitable Labours of Hannah and Martha More, in Their Neighborhood, being the Journal of Martha More, ed Arthur Roberts. London: James Nisbet and Co, 1859.

More, Hannah. Coelebs in Search of a Wife. Bristol: Thoemmes Press, 1995.

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Myers, Mitzi. “Reform or Ruin: ‘A Revolution in Female Manners’.” Studies in Eighteenth -Century Culture, Vol 11, ed Harry C Payne. Madison, Wisconsin: University of Wisconsin Press, 1982.


Pocock, J G A. Virture, Commerce, and History - Essays on Political Thought and History, Chiefly in the Eighteenth Century. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1985.

Prochaska, F K. Women and Philanthropy in Nineteenth-Century England. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1980.

Spring, David. “Aristocracy, Social Structure, and Religion in the Early Victorian Period.” Victorian Studies VI (1963) 263-80.

- - - - - - - - - . “The Clapham Sect: Some Social and Political Aspects.” Victorian Studies V (1961) 35-48.

- - - - - - - - . “Some Reflections on Social History in the Nineteenth Century.” Victorian Studies IV (1960) 55-64.

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Contents of Reels - Part 1

Manuscripts

REEL 1

A collection of letters to and from Hannah More • Letters from Hannah More • Hannah More: undated letters

Correspondents include: John Hiley Addington, MP, Henrietta Maria Bowdler, Ann (Lovell) Gwatkin, Sarah Martha Holroyd, Mrs Ann Kennicott, Alexander Knox, Zachary Macaulay, Sir William Weller Pepys, Lady Olivia Sparrow, James Stephen, Lord Teignmouth, Henry Thornton.

Pocket Book, beginning 1794

REEL 2

A collection of letters to and from Hannah More (CONTINUED) • Letters from Ann Kennicott to Hannah More • Letters from other correspondents • Other letters

Correspondents include: John Hiley Addington, MP, Henrietta Maria Bowdler, Ann (Lovell) Gwatkin, Sarah Martha Holroyd, Mrs Ann Kennicott, Alexander Knox, Zachary Macaulay, Sir William Weller Pepys, Lady Olivia Sparrow, James Stephen, Lord Teignmouth, Henry Thornton.

Hannah More manuscripts • Letters to and from Hannah More • Bluestocking letters

Correspondents include: Sir Thomas Ackland, Cadell and Davies, Hester Chapone, Joseph Cottle, Elizabeth Montagu, David Garrick, Sir Robert Peel.

‘Reminiscencies’, 1827, notebook

Transcript of ‘Reminiscencies’ by Janice Devereux

First Editions and Rare Printed Works Works and works inspired by

REEL 3

1821 Hannah More (henceforth HM) Bible rhymes, on the names of all the books of the Old and New Testament: with allusions to some of the principal incidents and characters. London. T Cadell and Hatchard and Son. First Edition.

1789 [HM] Bishop Bonner’s ghost Strawberry-Hill. Printed by Thomas Kirgate. First and only edition.

1813 HM Christian morals London. T Cadell and W Davies. 2 vols. First edition.

1813 HM Christian morals New York. Eastburn, Kirk & Co. First American from the fourth London edition.

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[HM] Coelebs in search of a wife. Comprehending observations on domestic habits and manners, religion and morals. London. T Cadell and W Davies. 2 vols. First edition.

[HM] Coelebs in search of a wife. Comprehending observations on domestic habits and manners, religion and morals. New York. T & J Swords. 2 vols. First American edition from the second London edition.

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HM Coelebs, ou Le choix d’une épouse, roman moral, contenant des remarques sur les usages et les devoirs domestiques, sur la religion et sur les moeurs. Paris. chez P Mongio l’aine, Libraire. 2 vols.

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1809 [Byron, Medora G] Celia in search of a husband. By a modern antique. London. Printed at Minerva Press, for A K Newman & Co. 2 vols. Second edition.


1809 [Mudford, William] Nubilia in search of a husband; including sketches of modern society, and interspersed with moral and literary disquisitions. London. J Ridgeway, Sherwood, Neely and Jones. First edition.

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1809 HM Rover, George [pseudonym] Coelebs suited, or the opinions and part of the life of Caleb Coelebs, Esq a distant relation of the late Charles Coelebs, Esq deceased. By Sir George Rover, Bart. London. Edmund Lloyd. First edition.

1812 [Barlow, F] A sequel to Coelebs; or, the Stanley letters: containing observations on religion and morals; with anecdotes founded on fact. London. M Jones. First edition.

1817 [Corp, Harriet] Coelebs deceived. By the author of ‘An antidote to the miseries of human life’, ‘Cottage sketches’, etc. New York. J Seymour. 2 vols in one.

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1815 HM An essay on the character and practical writings of St Paul. London. T Cadell and W Davies. 2 vols. First edition.

1777 [HM] Essays on various subjects, principally designed for young ladies. London. J Wilkie and T Cadell. First edition.

(1820) HM Essays on various subjects principally designed for young ladies. Edinburgh. Oliver & Boyd. A new edition. With a memoir by the author.

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1791 [HM] An estimate on the religion of the fashionable world. By one of the laity. London. T Cadell. First edition.

1792 [HM] Hodson, Septimus. Sermons on the present state of religion in this country and on other subjects. London. T Cadell. First edition.

1779 [HM] The fatal falsehood: a tragedy. As it is acted at the Theatre-Royal, in Covent Garden. By th [sic] author of Percy. London. T Cadell. First edition.

1779 [HM] The fatal falsehood: a tragedy. As it is acted at the Theatre-Royal, in Covent Garden. By the author of Percy. London. T Cadell. First edition. The fourth entry bound with four other works in a volume entitled ‘Plays’ as follows:

Delap, John. The royal suppliants. A tragedy. As performed at the Theatre- Royal in Drury Lane. London. 1781.

[Pratt, Samuel Jackson] The fair Circassian. A tragedy. As performed at the Theatre-Royal, Drury-Lane. London. 1781.

Cowley, Hannah, Albina, Countess Raimond. A tragedy, by Mrs Cowley: As it is performed at the Theatre-Royal in the Haymarket. London. 1779.

[Francklin, Thomas] The Earl of Warwick, a tragedy, as it is performed at the Theatre-Royal in Drury-Lane. London. 1769. Fourth edition.

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1780 [HM] The fatal falsehood: a tragedy. As it is acted at the Theatre-Royal, in Covent-Garden by the author of Percy. London. T Cadell. Second edition. The fourth entry in a volume entitled ‘More’s Plays’ as follows:

• [HM] Sir Eldred of the Bower, and the Bleeding Rock. London. 1778. • Second edition. • [HM] The Search After Happiness. London. 1785. Eighth edition. • [HM] Percy. London. 1784. Third edition.

HM The feast of freedom, or, the abolition of domestic slavery in Ceylon; the vocal parts adapted for music by Charles Wesley, Esq., organist in ordinary to His Majesty … London. T Cadell. Second (?) edition.

1805 [HM] Hints towards forming the character of a young princess. London. T Cadell and W Davies. 2 vols. First edition.

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1819 HM Hints toward forming the character of a young princess. London. T Cadell and W Davies. 2 vols. Fifth edition with a new preface.


1786 [HM] Florio: a tale, for fine gentlemen and fine ladies: and the Bas Bleu; or conversation: Two poems. London. T Cadell. First edition. Bound in a volume entitled ‘Pamphlets’, including ‘Bozzy and Piozzi, or the British biographers, a town eclogue. By Peter Pindar Esq.

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1774 HM The inflexible captive: a tragedy. Bristol. S Farley and T Cadell. First edition.

HM Moral sketches on prevailing opinions and manners, foreign and domestic: with reflections on prayer. London. T Cadell and W Davies. First edition.

HM Moral sketches of prevailing opinions and manners, foreign and domestic: with reflections on prayer. London. T Cadell and W Davies. Sixth edition.

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(1819) [HM] [Moral sketches]. A contemporary anonymous review of Hannah More’s ‘Moral Sketches of Prevailing Opinions and Manners, Foreign and Domestic: with Reflections on Prayer.’ pp 131-141.

1777 [HM] Ode to Dragon, Mr Garrick’s house-dog, at Hampton. London. T Cadell. First edition.

1811 HM Practical piety; or the influence of the religion of the heart on the conduct of the life. London. T Cadell and W Davies. 2 vols. First edition.

nd HM Practical piety; or, the influence of the religion of the heart on the conduct of life. (1855?) New York. American Tract Society. Revised, slightly abridged.

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HM Remarks on the speech of M Dupont, made in the national convention of France, on the subjects of religion and public education. London. T Cadell. First edition.

[HM] Sacred dramas; chiefly intended for young persons: the subjects taken from the Bible. To which is added Sensibility, a poem. London. T Cadell. First edition.

1815 HM Sacred dramas chiefly intended for young persons. The subjects taken from the Bible. To which is added, Sensibility, an epistle. London. T Cadell and W Davies. Twentieth edition with additions.

HM Sir Eldred of the bower, and the bleeding rock: two legendary tales. London. T Cadell. First edition.

nd [HM] A search after happiness: a pastoral in three dialogues (1773?) by a young lady. Bristol. S Farley. First edition.

1773 [HM] The search after happiness: a pastoral drama. Bristol. S Farley. Second edition with additions.

1796 [HM] The search after happiness: a pastoral drama. London. T Cadell, Junior, and W Davies. Eleventh edition, with additions.

1811 [HM] The search after happiness: a pastoral drama to which is added, Joseph made known to his brethren: A sacred drama. Philadelphia. Johnson and Warner.

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1775 [HM] The search after happiness: a pastoral drama. Bristol. Bonner and Middleton. Sixth edition. Bound with three other works in a volume entitled ‘More’s Plays’ as follows:

[HM] The inflexible captive: a tragedy, Bristol. 1774. Third edition.

[HM] Sir Eldred of the Bower, and The Bleeding Rock; or, The Metamorphosis of a Nymph into a Stone: two legendary tales. T Cadell. 1778. Second edition, corrected.

[HM] Percy, a tragedy. As it is acted at the Theatre-Royal in Covent Garden. London. T Cadell. 1778. First edition, with tipped in errata sheet.


1788 HM Slavery, a poem. London. T Cadell. First edition.

[HM] The spirit of prayer. Selected and compiled by herself from various portions exclusively on that subject in her published volumes. London. T Cadell. First edition.

[HM] The Estimate of the Religion of the Fashionable World. London. T Cadell. Fifth edition, the first item in a volume entitled ‘More’s Tracts’.

1799 [HM] Thoughts on the importance of the manners of the great to general society. London. T Cadell and W Davies. Ninth edition, the second item in a volume entitled ‘More’s Tracts’.

HM Thoughts on the importance of the manners of the great to general society; An estimate of the religion of the fashionable world; Remarks on the speech of M Dupont; London. T Cadell and W Davies. A new edition. Tracts written during the Riots, 1817.

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1799 HM Strictures on the modern system of female education. With a view of the principles and conduct prevalent among women of rank and fortune. London. T Cadell Junior and W Davies. 2 vols. First edition.

1800 HM Strictures on the modern system of female education. With a view of the principles and conduct prevalent among women of rank and fortune. Charlestown. Printed for Samuel Etheridge, for E Larkin, Boston. 2 vols in one. First (?) American edition.

1799 [HM] A letter to Mrs Hannah More on some part of her late publication, entitled ‘Strictures on Female Education’ to which is subjoined a discourse on Genesis XV 6 preached at Christ’s Church in Bath. By the Rev Charles Daubeny, LL B. Minister of Christ’s Church, Bath. London. J Hatchard, and F & C Livingston. Seventh item in a volume entitled ‘Pamphlets’.

1800 [HM] Sappho Search [John Black]. A poetical Review of Miss Hannah More’s strictures on female education: in a series of anapestic epistles. London. T Hurst. This item has been filmed from the collections of the British Library.

1793 [HM] Village politics. Addressed to all mechanics, journey- men, and day labourers, in Great Britain, by Will Chip, a country carpenter. London. F and C Rivington. Seventh edition.

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Detailed Listing - Part 1

Manuscripts

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Letters from Hannah More

1777. 19 August. To: [Mrs Kennicott] 2 leaves. Signed by HM

[1781]. 15 June. To: Mrs Kennicott. 4 leaves. Signed HM. With ribbon tie. Filed out of sequence.

[1782]. 17 April. To: [Mrs Kennicott] 4 leaves. Signed HM

1782. 25 June. To: Mrs Kennicott. 4 leaves. Signed HM

1782. 17 April. To: Mrs Kennicott. 4 leaves. Signed HM

[1782]. 10 October. To: [Mrs Kennicott?] 8 leaves. Signed HM

1783. [‘I don’t know the day of the month’] To: Mrs Kennicott. 4 leaves. Signed HM

1783. [ 26 January? or April?] To: Mrs Kennicott 6 leaves. Signed HM


[1783]. 22 April. To: [Mrs Kennicott] 6 leaves. Signed HM. With ribbon tie. Filed out of sequence.

1783. 20 May. To: Mrs Kennicott. 4 leaves. Signed HM

1783. 18 September. To: [Mr Pepys] 7 leaves. Signed HM

1783. 4 October. To: Mrs Kennicott. 8 leaves. Signed HM

1783. 11 November. To: [Mr W W Pepys] 7 leaves. Signed HM. ‘On books for children’

[1784. 25--] – franked. To: Mrs Kennicott. 4 leaves. Signed HM. R ibbon tied and out of sequence

1784. 7 June. To: Mrs Kennicott. 4 leaves. Signed HM. Ribbon tied and out of sequence

1785. 20 October. To: [Mr W W Pepys] 4 leaves. Signed HM.

[1786]. 19 April. To: [Mrs Kennicott?] 6 leaves, incomplete? Signed in pencil HM

[1786 or 1787 or 1788]. 8 July. To: 5 leaves, Signed HM. With ribbon tie and filed out of sequence

[1788]. May. To: [Mr. W W Pepys] 4 leaves. Signed HM

1789. 14 September. To: [Mr W W Pepys] 4 leaves. Signed HM.

1789. 25 December. To: [Mrs. Kennicott] 4 leaves. Signed HM. Ribbon tied and out of sequence.

1790.1 September. To: [Horace Walpole] 2 leaves folio. Signed HM

1790. [post 1 September]. To: [Horace Walpole]. 2 leaves folio. Signed HM

1793. 4 February. To: Mrs Kennicott. 4 leaves. Signed in pencil HM

1793. 18 July – franked. To: [Mrs Kennicott] 7 leaves. Signed HM

1793. 18 November. To: Mrs Kennicott. 4 leaves – incomplete. Signed in pencil HM

1796. 14 January. To: Z Macaulay. 4 leaves, Signed HM

[1796]. 30 January. To: [Mr Kennicott] 4 leaves mutilated

1797. 7 August. To: Mrs H Thornton. 4 leaves. Signed HM

1797. 8 September. To: Z Macaulay. 7 leaves. Signed HM

[1798]. To: [Mrs. H. T(hornton)] 4 leaves. Incomplete?


[1800]. To: ‘My dear Friend’. 2 leaves with additional two leaves cut away. Referes to death of Mrs Elizabeth Montagu[1800?]. To: Mrs H T(hornton)] 4 leaves. Signed HM

[1800]. 2 June. To: [Mrs. Kennicott?] 4 leaves. Signed HM

[1800]. 25 November. To: [Mrs Kennicott] 5 leaves. Signed HM


[1801. 1 December]. To: Mrs La Touche. 6 leaves. Signed HM On school management

[1802?]. To: Alexander Knox, Dublin. 3 pages. Signed HM

1802. 17 June. To: John Bowdler. Copy [by HM?] of 20 page letter.On the Blagdon controversy – cutting from Bookseller’s catalogue tipped in. [stitched to]

[1802]. [‘Extracts from another letter of mine.’ ie HM] pp21-24.

[1802]. 1 August. To: ‘My dear Friend’. 4 leaves. Signed HM

1805. 11 January. To: Mrs Kennicott. 4 leaves. Signed HM

[1805?]. 21 February. To: Alexander Knox. 4 leaves. Signed HM

[1805]. 19 April. To: [Alexander Knox] 4 leaves. Signed HM

[1806?]. To: Alexander Knox. 3 leaves. Signed HM. With newspaper cutting about Knox attached

1806. 6 January. To: Alexander Knox. 4 leaves. Signed HM. ‘Hints to a Princess.’

[1806]. 27 April. To: Mrs H Thornton. 7 leaves. Signed HM

1806. 10 May. To: Alexander Knox. 4 leaves. Signed HM

[1806]. 17 July. To [Mrs Holroyd]. 4 leaves with a possible related leaves defective and cut away. Signed HM

1807. 14 July. To: Mrs Thornton. 6 leaves. Signed HM.

1807. 12 September – franked. To: Henry Thornton, MP. 7 leaves. Signed HM

[1807]. 28 September. To: Mrs Holroyd. 4 leaves. Signed HM

1807. 14 December. To: [Sir W W Pepys] 7 leaves. Signed HM

[1808]. 12 January. To: [Mrs Kennicott] 4 leaves. Signed HM

[1808 or 1809]. 9 June. To: Z Macaulay. 4 leaves. Signed HM

1808. 18 June. To: Henry Thornton. 4 leaves. Signed HM

[1808]. 28 June. To: Z Macaulay. 3 leaves. Signed HM

[1809]. 20 February. To: Mrs Kennicott. 6 leaves. Signed HM

1809. [23] February – franked. To: Mrs Huber. 4 leaves. Signed HM. Concerns the publishing of ‘Caleb …’

[1809]. 21 July. To: Mrs Kennicott. 6 leaves. Signed HM

1809. 11 November. To: Mrs Holroyd 5 leaves. Signed HM

[1810?]. [To a Friend] 4 leaves preceded by 2 leaves cut through. Signed HM. ‘A fragment’

1810. 5 April. To: Z Macaulay. 3 leaves. Signed HM

1810. 5 July. To: [?] 1 leaf - detached. Signed HM

[1810?]. 22 July. To: Mrs Kennicott. 4 leaves. Signed HM

[1810]. 13 November. To: Mrs Kennicott. 4 leaves. Signed HM

[1811]. To: Z Macaulay. 2 leaves. Signed HM


1811. 30 January. To: Mrs Kennicott. 4 leaves. Signed [HM] With enclosure

1811. 10 May. To: Mrs Holroyd. 2 leaves incomplete. Signed HM. [Attached to] 15 October 1811

[1811] 8 July. To: Z Macaulay. 2 leaves incomplete. Signed HM

[1811 or 1813?]. 15 October. To: Mrs Holroyd. 4 leaves. Signed HM

[With] 10 May 1811

1812. 10 June. To: [Mrs Kennicott] 5 leaves. Signed HM

1812. 21 September. To: Z Macaulay. 2 leaves. Signed HM

[1812]. 28 October. To: Mr. Huber. 4 leaves. Signed HM

[1812]. 13 November. To: Z Macaulay. 4 leaves. Signed HM

[1813]. 25 March. To: [Mr W W Pepys]. 8 leaves. Signed HM

[1813]. 9 May. To: Mrs Thornton. 4 leaves. Signed in pencil HM

[1813]. 4 July. To: Mrs Thornton. 4 leaves. Signed HM

1813. [4] August – franked. To: Zachary Macaulay. 4 leaves. Signed HM. Printed Letters of Hannah More To Zachary Macaulay, Esq, pp55-57

1813. 24 August. To: Lady Sparrow. 6 leaves. Signed HM

[1814]. To: [?] final leaf only. Signed HM

[1814]. To: Lady Olivia Sparrow. 3 leaves. Signed HM

[1814?]. 15 January. To: Zachary Macaulay. 3 leaves. Signed HM

1814. 17 February. To: Mrs Holroyd. 4 leaves. Signed HM

[1814]. 27 June. To: Lady Olivia Sparrow. 4 leaves. Signed HM

1814. 21 December. To: Zachary Macaulay. 4 leaves. Signed HM Printed Letters of Hannah More to Zachary Macaulay, Esq, pp 64-7

[1815]. To: ‘My dear Friend’. 4 leaves. Signed HM. Reproduced in Life Volume 3, p428

[1815?]. To: Mrs Kennicott. 4 pages. Signed HM. Emperor of Russia’s visit.

[1815]. To: [Mr & Mrs Huber]. 4 leaves incomplete

[1815?]. 4 February. To: Zachary Macaulay. 3 leaves. Signed HM. Printed Letters of Hannah More to Zachary Macaulay Esq, pp71-3

[1815]. 8 March. To: Mrs Holroyd. 3 leaves – torn. Signed HM

1815. 18 March. To: James Stephen, MP. 3 leaves. Signed HM

[1815 15 April – franked]. To: Z Macaulay. 3 leaves. Signed HM

1815. 6 May. To: Z Macaulay. 3 leaves. Signed HM

[1815]. 30 June. To: Mrs Holroyd. 4 leaves. Signed HM

[1815. 15 October]. To: Zachary Macaulay. 3 leaves mutilated. Printed Letters of Hannah More to Zachary Macaulay, Esq, pp87-9

[1815. 18 October]. To: Lady Olivia Sparrow. 7 leaves. Signed HM

[1816].18 March. To: Sir William Weller Pepys. 5 leaves. Signed HM

[1816 or 1814? 12 April]. To: [Mrs Thornton?] 4 leaves. Signed HM. Wilberforce’s visit

[1816]. 8 June. To: Lady Olivia Sparrow. 4 leaves. Signed HM


[1816]. 24 December. To: Mrs Kennicott. 4 leaves. Signed HM

[1817]. 24 March. To: Zachary Macaulay. 4 leaves. Signed HM. Printed Letters of Hannah More to Zachary Macaulay, Esq, pp91-4

[1817]. 18 April. To: Mrs Kennicott. 4 leaves. Signed HM

[1817. 17 May]. Zachary Macaulay. 1 leaf. Signed HM. Wrong date by W Roberts. Relates the death of Sarah/Sally More.

[1817. 4 June]. Mr & Mrs Huber. 5 leaves. Signed HM

[1817]. 21 November. To: Zachary Macaulay. 4 leaves incomplete. Printed Letters of Hannah More to Zachary Macaulay, Esq, pp99-104

[1817]. 13 December. To: Mrs Kennicott. 4 leaves incomplete

[1818]. To: ‘My dear Friend’. 4 leaves incomplete

[1818]. 25 [?] To: Zachary Macaulay. 4 leaves. Signed HM. Printed Letters of Hannah More to Zachary Macaulay, Esq, pp120-126

[1818]. 28 May. To: [ Mr & Mrs Huber] 4 leaves. Signed HM

1818. 30 September. To [‘Sir’?] 4 leaves. Signed HM

1818. November – franked. To: ‘My dear Friend’. 4 leaves. Finished and signed in pencil

1818. 18 November. To: Zachary Macaulay. 2 leaves. Signed HM

[1819]. To: Mrs Macaulay. 4 leaves, black border. Signed HM

1819. 22 July. 4 leaves. Signed HM

[1819]. 24 August. To: ‘My dear Friend’. 4 leaves. Signed HM

1819. 23 October – franked in black border. To: [Mrs Walmsley] 3 leaves. Signed HM

[1819]. 18 November. To: Mr & Mrs Huber. 7 pages, black borders. Signed HM. Refers to death of Patty More, 1819.

[1820]. To: ‘My dear friend’ 4 leaves incomplete

[1820]. To: ‘My dear Friend’ 4 leaves. Signed HM

1820. 11 January. To: Mr & Mrs Huber, Geneva. 5 leaves. Signed HM

1820. 2 February – franked. To: Zachary Macaulay. 1 leaf. Signed HM

1820. [14?] February – franked. To: Z Macaulay. 4 leaves. Signed HM

1820. 24 May – franked, To: Z Macaulay. 4 leaves. Signed HM

1820. 27 May – franked. To: Zachary Macaulay. 1 side incomplete.

[1820 June]. To: Z Macaulay. 4 leaves. Signed HM. With newspaper cutting of Macaulay’s tombstone pasted in

[1820 June?]. To: ‘My dear Friend’. 4 leaves. Signed HM

1820. 9 July – franked. To: Mr & Mrs Huber. 7 leaves. Signed HM

1820. 9 December 1820 – franked. To: Z Macaulay. 4 leaves. Signed HM

[1821]. To: ‘My dear Friend’. 2 leaves incomplete.

[1821. 15? January – franked] To: Z Macaulay. 2 leaves. Signed?

1821. 31 March. To: Mr & Mrs Huber. 4 leaves. Signed HM

1821. 23 May. Z Macaulay. 4 leaves. Signed HM

1821. 17 November – franked. To: Z Macaulay. 4 leaves. Signed HM


1823. 24 January. To: Mr & Mrs Huber, Geneva 6 leaves. Signed HM

[1826. 4 February]. To: [Z Macaulay]. 4 leaves. Signed HM

[1826. March]. To: ‘My dear Friends’. 4 leaves. Signed HM

1827. To: Z Macaulay. 4 leaves. Signed HM

[1827]. To: Z Macaulay. 6 leaves. Signed HM

1827. 8 September – franked. To: Z Macaulay. 4 pages. Signed

Hannah More: Undated Letters

[n d]. To: ‘My dear Friend’. 4 leaves. Signed HM

[n d]. To: Mr & Mrs Huber. 4 leaves incomplete

[n d]. To: James Stephen, 4 leaves. Signed HM

[n d]. To: Mr M[acaulay] 6 leaves. Signed HM

13 July. To: Mr Macaulay. 4 leaves. Signed HM

19 September [?]. To: Alexander Knox. 4 leaves incomplete

29 September. To: [?] 4 leaves incomplete. Copy by HM? incomplete. Concerns the milk woman

[n d]. A signed but undated fragment. 4 leaves cut away and defective. Signed HM.

Pocket Book

A small pocket book of c.80 pages, beginning 1794, containing various religious thoughts, &c. in diary form. Some pages torn away and defective.

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Letters from Ann Kennicott to Hannah More

[1777]. 4 January. 3 leaves. Signed A Kennicott. Refers to American War of Independence

1779. 9 February. 3 leaves. Signed A Kennicott

1781. 2 August. 4 leaves. Signed A Kennicott

[1783]. 1 December. 7 leaves? Signed A Kennicott

1784. 7 February (or 18 June). 2 leaves cut away and further defective leaves.

[1790].14 January. 2 leaves incomplete with defective pieces attached. [Attached to] 19 July, below.

[1790 or 1787]. 1 March. 3 leaves. Signed A Kennicott

[1790]. 19 July. 6 leaves. Signed A Kennicott. [Attached to]

14 January [1790] above.

1791. 26 September. 7 leaves. Signed A Kennicott [Attached to]

November [1795?] below.

[1792?]. 24 August. 4 leaves. Signed A Kennicott

[1795?]. 2 November. 2 leaves incomplete. [Attached to]

26 September 1791, above.

1807. 3 June. 4 leaves. Signed A Kennicott

[1807]. 6 July. 3 leaves. Signed A Kennicott


[1808]. 26 January. 5 leaves. Signed A Kennicott.

[1808 or 1809]. 6 September. 4 leaves. Signed A Kennicott

1809. 12 January. 3 leaves. Signed A Kennicott

1809. 25 March – franked. 3 leaves on lined paper, slightly defective. Signed A Kennicott

[1810]. 2 leaves incomplete. Signed A Kennicott

[1810]. 15 November. 4 leaves (2 cut away). Signed A Kennicott

[1811]. 1 leaf incomplete. Signed A Kennicott

[1811]. 1 leaf incomplete. Signed A Kennicott

1811. 29 April – franked. 1 leaf incomplete. Signed A Kennicott

1812. 16 December. 4 leaves. Signed A Kennicott

1813. 7 June – franked. 3 leaves. Not signed A Kennicott

[1814]. 28 January. 3 leaves (torn). Signed A Kennicott [Stitched to]

[1814]. 25 February. 3 leaves (final defective). Signed A Kennicott 1814

[1814]. 2 October. 4 leaves. Signed A Kennicott

[1815]. 1 April 2 leaves. Signed A Kennicott

[1825]. 13 April. 4 leaves. Signed A Kennicott

January. 3 leaves. Signed A Kennicott

2 January. 4 leaves unfinished

20 January. 3 leaves. Signed A Kennicott

7 February. 4 leaves. Signed A Kennicott


11 February. 4 leaves unfinished



5 March. 4 leaves. Signed A Kennicott



17 March [?]. 3 leaves on lined paper. Signed A Kennicott


26 March. 4 leaves unfinished

3 April. 4 leaves. Signed A Kennicott

7 April [?]. 4 leaves. Signed A Kennicott

8 April [?]. 4 leaves. Signed A Kennicott. Bishop Porteous still alive (he died 1808)

10 April. 3 leaves. Signed A Kennicott

1 May. 2 leaves. Signed A Kennicott




6 June. 3 leaves. Signed A Kennicott



7 July. 4 leaves. Signed A Kennicott


13 July (bis). 4 leaves. Signed A Kennicott


15 July [?]. 3 leaves. Signed A Kennicott




12 September. 4 leaves. Signed A Kennicott

16 September [?].1 leaf incomplete. Signed A Kennicott



23 September (bis). 4 leaves. Signed A Kennicott



1 October. 4 leaves. Signed A Kennicott




16 November. 4 leaves. Signed A Kennicott



1 December. 4 leaves. Signed A Kennicott

10 December [?]. 2 leaves. Signed A Kennicott



[nd]. 4 leaves. Signed A Kennicott. ‘… I have sent my stays to the mantua makers, and I expect to be quite in shape when my gown is made to fit them …’

[nd]. 6 leaves. Signed A Kennicott. After the death of her husband, 1783

[nd]. 1 leaf incomplete. Signed A Kennicott. Cowslip Green mentioned, ie 1784-1802

[nd]. ‘Of Visits’. 4 leaves. Incomplete? [Probably by A Kennicott]

[nd, but c.1783]. Character of Dr Kennicott. 4 leaves folio – last leaf torn across. Unsigned. Probably by A Kennicott?


Letters from other correspondents

[1799]. 2 April. From F Nichol (?) 4 leaves. Signed

1810. 3 August. From T H Gallander (?) of Hartford, Connecticut. 4 leaves. Signed

1813. 7-10 January. From Jane West, of West Springfield, Massachusetts. 4 leaves. Signed Jane West

1813. 10 September. From James Stephen. 4 leaves. Signed James Stephen

1815. 14 February. From [Henrietta Maria?] Bowdler to H More. 3 leaves. Signed

1820. June 23. From Lord Teignmouth. 3 leaves. Signed Teignmouth

1820. 2 July. From Jane West, of West Springfield, Massachusetts. 4 leaves. Signed Jane West

1820. 26 July. From James Stephen. 6 leaves. Signed J Stephen

1829. 24 February. From Jane West, of West Springfield, Massachusetts. 4 leaves. Signed Jane West. 13 November. 4 leaves incomplete, nd, presumably to H. More?

[nd]. ‘Respected Madam’. Cavendish Square, [London], 27 April [–] 4 leaves incomplete. Refers to ‘Cheap Repository Tracts’ (1794-)

Other Letters

1782. 7 November. From Josiah Tucker, Dean of Gloucester to Mrs Boscawen. 3 leaves. Signed J Tucker

1806. 2 April. From Martha More to Countess Waldegrave. 4 leaves. Signed Martha More A number of defective, undated, unsigned and mutilated leaves

Letters to and from Hannah More

1 page letter from Hannah More to Cadell her publisher regarding attendance at her play (Percy?) addressed from Hampton, Garrick’s house. nd [1778?].

1 page four quatrain adulatory poem. David Garrick to Hannah More, dated November 23, 1778. From Hannah More’s Book of Fame.

2 page six quatrain adulatory poem. David Garrick to Hannah More, nd [1770s]. From Hannah More’s Book of Fame.

Appointment card signed by David Garrick to Hannah More, nd [1774]. On address panel, she writes “1774’ twas the first!” Presumably, referring to their first encounter. From Hannah More’s Book of Fame.

One page poem “Hannah More” written by Robert Lowth, Bishop of London. February 16, 1781. From Hannah More’s Book of Fame.

A Transcription of the above in Latin and English (2 pages) by Benjamin Kennicott, February 16, 1781. Kennicott was the noted Hebrew scholar.

2 pages of letter from Hannah More to W W Pepys, nd (1785), containing references to Rousseau’s “Emile”.

4 page letter Hannah More to Mrs George Wilsingham, December 1, 1786.

4 page letter Hannah More to Mrs George Wilsingham, July 23, 1788.

2 page letter Hannah More to Mrs Stokes, nd, apparently late 1780s or early 1790s.

1 page letter probably to John Wilmot, referring to a contribution for the benefit of emigrant French clergy from the profits of her pamphlet “Remarks on the Speech of M Dupont_____”. July 18, 1793.

1 page letter Thomas Bere to G P Seymour relating to the Blagdon Controversy, November 3, 1800. (Tipped into volume in clamshell box labelled Blagdon Controversy Pamphlets).

2½ page letter Hannah More to Cadell and Davies her publishers, referring in part to the Blagdon Controversy, nd (1801).

1 page invite Hannah More to Samuel Lysons for tea, nd (1801,1802).

1 page letter Hannah More to Cadell and Davies, November 1, 1804. Refers to “Hints on the education of a princess, etc.”

3 page letter Hannah More to unknown lady giving details of anniversary celebrations for Cheddar Club and citing Cowper. June10 (1806 – watermark).


1½ page letter Hannah More to Robert Forster? January 25 (1806? postmark).

2 page letter Hannah More to John Frowd, April 5, 1809. Refers to “Coelebs”.

1¼ page verse letter Hannah More to William Perry on the occasion of his marriage. Contains six four-line stanzas.

4½ page letter Hannah More to Lord Radstock. Refers to the Cheap Repository Tracts, February 6 (1811?).

3 page letter Hannah More to unknown man, January 5, 1814.

3½ page letter Hannah More to unknown lady. Refers to her book on St Paul. (March 10 (1815?).

2½ page letter Hannah More to Sir Thomas D Acland referring in part to Bonaparte, March 29, 1815.

2 page letter Hannah More to Mr Harford inviting the recipient to speak at the Wrington Bible meeting, nd (1815?)

2½ page letter Hannah More to Miss Thomaston, nd (1815).

3½ page letter Hannah More to Dr Valpy. June 5, 1816. Extending condolences.

1 page letter Hannah More to Mr Bulgin (1818?). Bulgin was her business representative from time to time.

3 page letter Hannah More to Cadell and Davies. Mentions “Moral Sketches” – lists 60 or so names to be recipients of presentation copies. Postmarked 1819.

3 page letter Lord Sidmouth to Hannah More, August 31, 1819. Praises “Moral Sketches”.

5 page letter Hugh Nicholas Pearson to Hannah More,October 13, 1819. Condolences on the death of her sister. Praises “Moral Sketches”.

3 page letter Martha More to William Davies (publisher), December 1 (1819). Recounts Hannah More’s accident at the time of publication of “Moral Sketches”.

4 page letter Hannah More to unknown recipient. Refers to Young T B Macaulay. nd (1819?).

2½ page letter Hannah More to Charles Warne, November 17, 1819.

4 page letter Hugh [Nicholas] Pearson to Hannah More, February 11, 1820.

1 page letter Hannah More to Thos Cadell, December 4, 1820.

1 page letter Hannah More to her publisher regarding “Bible Rhymes” (1821).

1 page letter Hannah More to Mrs. Jones.

3 page letter Hannah More to T Cadell dated July 16, 1822. Mentions several of her works.

2 page letter Hannah More to unknown recipient, nd (1820s). Possibly to her publisher.

Engraved portrait of Hannah More by Pickersgill, engr Worthington March 1824, inscribed in large hand by HM “The portrait of Hannah More Her Autograph May 5th 1924”. Dusty. Laid down on linen on a wooden stretcher.

3 page letter Hannah More to Sir Thomas Dyke Acland mentioning the deaths of a few friends and complaining about work, January 9, 1826.

2 page letter Hannah More to Sir Robert Peel dated May 6, 1826, with notations by Peel’s secretary for reply.

A pencil drawing of Barley Wood, inscribed at bottom “A faithful portrait of my cottage of Barley Wood. Hannah More. October 20, 1826.”

2 page letter Hannah More to Joseph Cottle regarding the review of the works of two well-known divines of the times, nd.

2 page letter Hannah More to Joseph Cottle regarding business matters, n d (watermarked 1827).

1½ page religious manuscript, July 1827. Presumably given to avisitor to Barley Wood.

Portion of 1 page of a letter Hannah More to Sir Thomas Ackland mentioning her diminished need for servants, having departed Barley Wood for a townhouse in Bristol, nd, postmarked September 3, 1828.

4 page letter Hugh [Nicholas] Pearson to Hannah More, June 25, 1821.

An ink drawing of Hannah More’s room at Barley Wood said to picture her with William Wilberforce. Inscribed by Hannah


More on verso “Mrs Hannah More’s room at Barley Wood. 1828 April”. She moved to Bristol on April 18, 1828.

1 page invitation note to Miss Fords with Miss Ford’s note indicating results of the visit. (1830).

Hand colored print of Hannah More’s home, Barley Wood Portrait of Hannah More. Engraved by [ E Scrivan?] as a young woman (nd)

Engraved portrait of Hannah More from the original painting by H W Pickersgill, 1872?

News clippings of Hannah More’s Centenary Bibliography of Hannah More in The Mirror, 1833.

Hannah More her first introduction to Doctor Johnson. nd unknown writer, small slip of paper.

Two engraved frontispieces of Hannah More.

Blue Stocking Manuscripts

Elizabeth Montagu. Letter ‘written to my Grandfather’.

Elizabeth Montagu. Bath. April 2, 1748. Letter to the Duchess of Portland.

Hester Chapone, Autograph letter signed 27 February 1769 to Rev Richard Price (1723-1791), writer on morals, politics and economics.

Reminiscencies, 1827 - Notebook and Transcription

‘Reminiscencies’. A 37-page manuscript notebook apparently in Hannah More’s hand containing table talk, conversations of visitors to Barley Wood and anecdotes about Johnson, Mrs Garrick, Lord Moboddo, the Duke of Clarence, etc. Final 14 pages are used for transcribing quotations. January and February 1827. Contained in original marbled wrappers. Notwithstanding the note by C B Pigot on the cover, this cannot be in Patty More’s hand, as she had died in 1819.

Transcript of ‘Reminiscencies’ by Janice Devereux

[NB the frequent emendations in the Notebook are written in superscript and are preceded by a caret (except those I have noted); some appear to be in different ink. I have transcribed the emendations in italics for the sake of convenience and clarity. Where there is some uncertainty about the legibility of a word I have transcribed it in curly brackets.] – Janice Devereux

REMINISCENCIES Hannah More’s Notebook (1827)

Sir Richd Hill - Mrs H More in conversation respecting this eccentric Character told us that he was a remarkably polite elegant gentleman in manners & address - she said she had often been surprised to hear of the very splendid Table which he kept, his entertainments being frequently such as might come under the description of pompous – Rowland Hill visited our dear Friend more than once at an advanced period of both their lives - she was very agreeably surprised at his mild quiet deportment, & rational conversation; & at the great value which he put upon character, which she would have expected him to have too much set at nought - but he expressed himself as regarding it of very high importance on the score of its being so necessary to usefulness –

Mrs - Garrick - Mrs H - M - in speaking of her told us she often went to the Protestant Churches when in the Country, & had one of our Prayerbooks constantly by her, the prayers in which she very much admired & commonly used & she had several times expressed her regret that she had not been born in a Protestant Country for then she should have been of the Religion but that she thought it right to continue in the Religion in which we were born! Altho’ she was a woman of such correct & elegant taste in dress, that Ladies of the highest Rank would sometimes request her to come & look at them when drest [sic] for Court that she might rectify anything that was amiss, by her judgement, yet she did not by any means make her own dress a matter of any importance but on the contrary was very indifferent to it; Dr Johnson who was sometimes more observant of these matters than would be supposed, once gave it as a test that Mrs G - was a very good drapery that people did not remark what she had on, meaning that everything was in such good keeping as to prevent any part of her attire from being too prominent –

Ld Monboddo was a great admirer of Mrs Garrick; in one of his Visits to Hampton, after walking with him round the Grounds she asked him if he did not think them very complete to which he replied that it was a perfect Paradise, & that it only wanted an Adam; this speech amused her much because the speaker was ignorant that her Xtian name was Eve; & what gave more point to this Anecdote is, that Ld M - made a Matrimonial proposal to Mrs G –

Mrs - Carter - We heard Mrs H - More tell an Anecdote which displayed the integrity of this Ladys [sic] way of thinking & her abhorrence of the fatal doctrine of expediency - A practice was discussed which {militated} against her notions of what was perfectly just fair & upright, & it had been urged in vindication, that it was necessary for the support of the Constitution of the Country to resort to it - upon which she exclaimed with unusual annimation [sic] “Perish the Constitution then! If it cannot be maintained without a breach of public integrity! [no closing quote marks]

See Boswell’s Johnson vol II 430.

Jany 12th 1827 Mr Hodgson called, & gave Mrs - H - More a very interesting account of a Visit from Dr Woodbridge ( a very able skilful instructor of the Deaf & Dumb) to the Asylum for those unfortunate Persons at Birmingham; He first delivered a


sermon to them in their language (that of Signs) the subjects of which were made perfectly intelligible by him both to his Deaf & Dumb Auditors & those who possessed the faculties of speech & hearing ; he treated of the Sin of Adam - human depravity, the atonement of Xt [ Christ] by which Sinners were reconciled to God, of Repentance & Faith by which we were brought to be partakers of the Salvation wrought out for us by the atonements [sic] of the Saviour - & Afterwards offered up a Prayer which he made especially intelligible both to those who had no other organs [sic] than that of sight, & those who were accustomed to receive communications by the common channel - They all found the Prayer to consist of adoration & praise, confession of unworthiness, supplication for pardon thro’ a crucified Saviour, for the Grace of the holy Spirit to amend the [sic] life, & of intercession –

Jany 13th a very agreeable Scottish Lady a Mrs Cooke from the East Indies called, a very intimate friend & relation of the McGregors, who told us, that there was such an eager desire to possess Mrs H - More’s four sweet lines to little John McGregor the Infant so wonderfully & mercifully preserved in the {Hunt} & then two years old that Mrs McGregor had had serious thoughts of having them lithographized [sic] & sold at a Table at the Bazaar in Edinburgh for the distressed Manufacturers at Paisley, the little boy being placed at the Table as the {Nominal} Seller, had not the extreme heat of the Weather made her fearful of the consequences to the Child of remaining in so crowded an Assembly –

Jany 16th Mrs H More told us in conversation this Eveng [evening] - that her oldest Sister remembered the circumstances of her Father’s sending a Present of Potatoes to his Friends in Norfolk from Bristol, & receiving with their thanks an engraving of how they were to be prepared for the Table, so comparatively Modern is the general use of that Vegetable –

Today Mr Ogilvie called & spoke a great deal of Blanco White recently admitted by Diploma to the degree of Mast Oxford where he has determined to establish his future Residence at Orielleoll [sic]: Mr O brought a very gratifying Message from him to Mrs - H - More, to whose works he professes to be very importantly indebted – B. White nobly resolves to refuse all Church preferment lest his motive for embracing the Protestant Religion should be brought into suspicion. Mr O says his manners are very bland and amicable & his conversation both entertaining & informing - he related a remarkably [sic] instance to him of the grievance of the Spanish Priests - Blanco White was requested by the Bible Society to look over & revise a Spanish Translation which had been finished of the New Testament; & the Priest above alluded to having called upon him, he asked him (knowing it was in vain to expect him to read the Original Greek) to read the Spanish Translation Verse by Verse while he read the corresponding Verse in the Greek, in order to detect the errors & disagreements of the former, which having done for some time he asked Blanco whether the Greek Testament which he was reading was the Septuagint Translation. –

Jany 20th Mr Sandford told us during a Visit he made this morning an Anecdote of the Duke of Clarence, which was very descriptive of his Manners - When he was employed in the Sea Service, he was stationed for a short time on the Coast of Ireland, & was of course invited & fêted with great respect by the Neighbouring Gentry; at one of these entertainments given to him by the officers An old General Genl Patterson was present on whom the Duke thought fit to play off some coarse raillery on the old fashioned cut of his Regimentals which had perhaps as a public uniform a little survived their first gloss of newness, trusting to his privilege of not being answered in the same familiar strain, at length the Genl – calmly rose from his seat & took his hat, upon which the Duke in some consternation called to him & asked him why he was preparing to leave them “ Sir” (replied the Officer) I am an old Genl & I have therefore learnt when I can’t fight to make good my retreat - The Duke apologised & the Genl then resumed his seat

Mrs - H More was repeating Dr Johnson’s eulogium upon Glass which he said was the most elegant of all inventions, & which the Romans wanted [i.e. lacked] amidst all their luxury & splendour - & “ as a consummation of its valuable qualities it has been made the blessed means (added he) of furnishing subsiduary light”! He Mentioned having received a visit formerly from Southey when he was a very young man in the bloom of great personal beauty. Vanity & presumption had not then in his mind [no caret inserted] been corrected by his more mature judgement; for upon his speaking to him of Milton with that admiration which all must feel who are capable of tasting the charms of true poetry, he replied that he did not fear being able to write a poem which should make Milton forgotten in six months!

She told us that in conversation with Paley whom she had met in the time of her mixing in Society, he was speaking of his first removal into the Residence attached to his golden Prebend, in which he succeeded Dr Egerton, “I found says he a most magnificent house, with provision for every convenience & luxury except that there was not a place to put a book in, as might be expected indeed, he added coming after a Nobleman! [no closing quote marks]

The conversations reported of the Duke of Clarence during the illness of the late Duke of York, are of the most injudicious unfeeling & revolting nature; a Gentleman wrote to Mrs H More amongst other disgusting Anecdotes that the Duke took at a dinner party occasion while his brother was on his deathbed to boast of the extraordinary strength of his constitution which he said promised that he should live to the age of 90 – A Gentleman resolved to lower his confidence answered “ I will but your Rl Highss [ Royal Highness] that [sic] you will not live three years” - “ How so?” replied the Duke with haste & surprise; “because”, said the Gentleman, “I have been reading a great deal lately upon calculations respecting the Insurance of lives, & I find that the life of a person your Rl Highss’s Age is not worth more than a Year & a half’s purchase” - The Duke’s presumption seemed to be completely damped [sic] by this reprimand –

Jany – 29th Mr Jarret of Wellington speaking of Wolfe during a Visit this morning said he had once been in a house with him which was large & full of guests, & that he never could find his own room but constantly blundered into that of another - & that during the Year he was at Cambridge he never could find out the right way to Mr Simeon’s Rooms [.] Altho [sic] he went there almost every day – so that tho’ [sic] he could find his way all over the world he could not find it to his own room or to a Residence a quarter of a mile from him –

Mrs H More told us this evening in Conversation that on one of her visits to Hammoon Madhouse to see poor Louisa or the Maid of the Haystack, whilst waiting alone in a parlour, a tall wan looking man came into the room & shutting the door after him seated himself by her on the sofa to her very great dismay; he then pulled a small book out of his pocket printed in the black letter nearly 200 Years before & showed her in which it was foretold that about the time in which they then were “ the Kingly Power should be lost but not the Kingly life” - The King was at that time under coercion in a state of derangement - she could not help (notwithstanding her dread at being so near an insane person & alone) being extremely surprised at seeing with her own eyes a prediction in a book of so early a date which this melancholy event appeared so exactly to fulfil [.] She said that when she visited the same poor Maniac (Louisa) at St Lukes, she was persuaded to go over the house, & was so extremely affected by it that she was obliged to put off an engagement she had for the next day, & for two or three days she


could not recover her spirits but was continually in tears

Ld Orford remarked to her of the Popes that all the Innocents were remarked for their violence & cruelty, & that the Leos were comparatively mild so that their names went by contraries, & I daresay ( said he) that if I were made Pope I should be Pope Boniface he was of a remarkably lean Quixotic figure –

he mentioned in speaking of Garrick that having been for some time worried by the ove[r]tures for strict intimacy by a family who had settled in his Neighbourhood chiefly with that View, but whose habits were the reverse of refined or literary, he fairly said to the head of it (Mr Roffey) “let us come to an explanation) [sic] I cannot play at Cards, & you cannot play at Books. We therefore do not suit each other so let us be good civil [no caret inserted] neighbours, without exchanging visits –

Mrs H More said when she went first to Town the two grand wishes of her heart were to see Goldsmith & Littleton [Lyttleton] & that they both died just about the very time of her arrival –

The Grandmother of Mrs H More who lived nearly to the age of 90, while her father’s life was prolonged to 88 years, was born at the time of the Fire of London AD 1666 -

Feby 2d Mrs Godfrey of Suffolk called this Morning; she told us two extraordinary Anecdotes of Seceding Predestinarians - The one was of a Mr - C - who pointing to two of his Children said to a Friend “those two are heirs of Salvation, they are safe their lot is to be blessed, but those others” he added with equal calmness [no opening quote marks] are predestinated [sic] to eternal damnation”[.] The other Anecdote was of a Farmer to whom a gentleman applied, requesting him to interfere with some of his labourers whom he had frequently observed to treat the animals about whom they were employed with savage barbarity, but the answer he received was “God gave them a wicked heart I have nothing to do with it, you must take it to God & not to me”!

Feby 5th Dear Mrs H More took peculiar pleasure in provising [sic] for this Neighbourhood the important spiritual advantage of hearing two Sermons from that pious Holy Servant of God Danl [Daniel] Wilson - his prayers & expositions at the Family devotions were most clear simple & animating - He told us in conversation [no caret inserted] that Voltaire left it in his Will that a Bust should be made of him & dedicated to his Memory 50 years after his decease - that period will be completed next year but two Monuments are erected at Ferney under the patronage of the B [i.e. Baronness] de Staël & the Duchesse de Broglie calculated (it is trusted) to obliterate the mischievous recollections accompanying his name – A Bible Association & a Protestant Church - Voltaire, when building the Church which he erected from Vanity & other as unworthy motives said he would dedicate his Church to the Master & not to the Valets - Alluding to the custom of Naming the Churches after Saints - Mr Wilson in speaking of Robt Hall whose talents he held in the very highest estimation, lamented his republican turn & that he should take upon him to defend Olivr Cromwell –

Feby 9th in easy conversation after dinner today she remarked upon the unconscious exaggerations which were universal & said nobody had ever seen a small Spider, or a small Rat or a Small [sic] toad & she observed to a Friend who habituated herself to strange rather exaggerated expressions “ My dear Ann, Your pink is always scarlet” “Don’t Sir, accustom yourself to use big words for little matters”[ .] Johnsons life [ vol.] I 322

See papers on the use of {interpretation} 26th Obs. [i.e.The Observer] {for} 1811. [NB the above line is inserted in different ink and has no closing bracket]

In speaking of Johnsons peculiarities of manner she described his way of asking to be helped to any dish at Table, he would often say with solemnity of voice, “I will beg as much of that pudding as is consistent with the Wants of others” - And when he had partaken of a more elegant table than usual, he would say in a tone of gravity mixed with satisfaction - “I have dined liberally today”.

Speaking of the force of habit, she lamented that the elegant friend of Sir Joshua Reynolds so replete with information & literature & taste, was not proof against its influence, he having been persuaded on the plea of his deafness to join occasionally in a family rubber at Whist till at length he contracted such an habitual liking to Cards that he could not spend an evening comfortably without them. This however was quite in the latter pat of his life –

Mrs H More & Mrs Kennicott always went with Bh [Bishop] Porteous to hear his Lent Lectures at St James’s & after Church was over he used to come to them to carry them back saying where are my devout & honourable women?Feby 10th The Bishop of Litchfield [sic] spent two hours here today, he was extremely pleasant & communicative; he told us that the Bishop of Lincoln had 1400 Livings in his Gifts –

Feby14th Miss {Henney} authoress of Letters on Prejudice called; she told us that the poor Irish were persuaded by their Teachers that the Bible was written by Henry 8th & Luther. The Abbess of the Convent at Cannington in Somersetshire, is daughter to Ld Clifford Steward, & his Lordship has already obliged one of his daughters, & proposes to compel the other two to take the Veil there –

Mrs H - More said in conversation to a friend that energy was the Soul of Life - quiet Spirits would carry on great Works but Enthusiasts are the founders of them -

An Officer in the Dragoons to whom Sir Jas [James] Stonehouse {Stonhouse} read an Infidel publication, said to him with solemn earnestness, are you very sure that our Religion is false - because if you are not [,] consider - this unsuspected appeal so struck upon his conscience that he was induced to burn the Manuscript immediately –

Mrs H More’s Grandfather who lived at Harlstone in Norfolk sheltered & lodged a Nonconformist Minister in his house for a Year or two, & computed that the charge of [no caret inserted] keeping of this Minister in his house amounted to ten pounds annually - The Wife of this gentleman was a woman of a very strong Mind & possessed great decision & firmness of character, one of the family anecdotes which were Preserved of her, is that being subject to frequent & sudden attacks of pleurisy & being distant three miles from medical aid, she learnt to bleed, in order to perform this operation upon herself - She had two children, the father of Mrs Hanh More - & a daughter named Hannah, Who was placed at the best School which the Country afforded & was a woman of very considerable & polished manners [.] She married & had several descendants.


INDEX

Sir Richd Hill Richard Hill (1732-1808) – MP for Shropshire, champion of Calvinistic Methodists & supporter of the British & Foreign Bible Society; see Dictionary of National Biography

Rowland Hill (1744-1833), younger brother of Richard, first chairman of the Committee of the Religious Tract Society, also promoter of the British & Foreign Bible Society & the London Missionary Society; see Dictionary of National Biography

Mrs Garrick – Eva Marie Violetti (1724-1822), dancer (at the Haymarket), b. Vienna; domiciled in London 1746; m. David Garrick (actor) 1749; see Dictionary of National Biography

Dr Johnson – Samuel Johnson (1709-84), English writer & translator & compiler of the Dictionary, 1747-55; see Oxford Companion to English Literature

Lord Monboddo – James Burnett (1714-99), Scottish judge; see Dictionary of National Biography

Mrs Carter - Elizabeth Carter (1717-1806), poet & miscellaneous writer; see Dictionary of National Biography

Mr Hodgson – possibly John Hodgson (1779-1845), antiquary; see Dictionary of National Biography

Mr Ogilvie – Charles Atmore Ogilvie (1793-1873), theologian (close friend of Blanco White); see Dictionary of National Biography

Blanco White – Joseph Blanco White (1775-1841), theological writer (b. Seville; emigrated to England 1810); converted to Church of England & qualified as English cleric 1814; see Dictionary of National Biography

Duke of Clarence – William Henry (3rd son of George III) (1765-1837), later William IV; see Chambers Biographical Dictionary

Southey – Robert Southey (1774-1845), poet, historian & miscellaneous writer; see Dictionary of National Biography

Paley – William Paley (1743-1805), Archdeacon of Carlisle; see Dictionary of National Biography

Dr Egerton – John Egerton (1721-87), Bishop of Durham; see Dictionary of National Biography

Duke of York – Frederick (2nd son of George III) (1763-1827)

Wolfe – Major-General James Wolfe (1727-59); see Dictionary of National Biography

Mr Simeon – Charles Simeon (1759-1836), divine & vicar of Holy Trinity, Cambridge; see Dictionary of National Biography

the King - reference to George William Frederick (1738-1820), King of England; see Dictionary of National Biography

Lord Orford – Horatio Walpole (1717-97), Earl of Orford, author, letter-writer, private-printer & wit; see Dictionary of National Biography

Garrick – David Garrick (1717-79), actor; see Dictionary of National Biography

Goldsmith – Oliver Goldsmith (1730-74) playwright; see Oxford Companion to English Literature

Littleton – George Lyttelton (1709-73), first Baron of Lyttleton, scholar, writer & politician; privy councillor, Chancellor of the Exchequer & later an active member of the House of Lords; see Dictionary of National Biography

Danl Wilson - Daniel Wilson (1778-1858), evangelical preacher, writer & later 5th Bishop of Calcutta; see Dictionary of National Biography

Voltaire – Francois-Marie Arouet (1694-1778), poet, historian & philosopher; see Oxford Companion to French Literature

B de Staël – Baroness Ann-Louise-Germaine de Staël (1766-1817); see Oxford Companion to French Literature

Duchesse de Broglie – Albertine - Ida Gustavine de Staël (1797-1838), Duchess of Broglie (daughter of Baroness Ann-Louise-Germaine de Staël; m. duc Victor de Broglie (1785-1870) in 1814); see Oxford Companion to French literature & Nouvelle Biographie Générale

Robt Hall – Robert Hall (1764-1831), baptist divine, noted for his pulpit oratory; see Chambers Biographical Dictionary

Oliver Cromwell (1599-1658), the Protector; see Dictionary of National Biography

Sir Joshua Reynolds (1723-92), English portrait-painter; see Dictionary of National Biography

Mrs Kennicott – Ann Kennicott (d.1830), letter-writer; m. Dr Benjamin [sic] Kennicott (1718-83), biblical scholar, in 1771; see Chambers Biographical Dictionary


Bh Porteous – Beilby Porteous (1731-1808), Bishop of London; see Dictionary of National Biography

Sir Jas Stonehouse – Sir James Stonhouse [sic] (1716-95), divine, physician & writer; see Dictionary of National Biography

As yet unidentified:

Dr Woodbridge (not listed in the DNB) Mrs Cooke/little John McGregor Mr Sandford Genl Patterson - General Patterson (not listed in the DNB) Mr Jarret Louisa, the Maid of the Haystack Mr Roffey Mrs Godfrey of Suffolk Ann Bishop of Litchfield Miss Henney Ld Clifford Steward

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1835? [Hannah More] (henceforth HM) The poetical works of Hannah More. London. Scott, Webster and Geary

[HM] The lady’s pocket library. Containing: Miss More’s Essays; Dr Gregory ‘Legacy to his Daughters’; Lady Pennington ‘Unfortunate Mother’s Advice to her Daughters’; Marchioness of Lambert ‘Advice of a Mother to her Daughter’; Mrs Chapone ‘Letter on the Government of the Temper; Swift ‘Letter to a Young Lady newly married; Moore ‘Fables for the Female Sex’. Philadelphia. Printed by R Folwell for Matthew Carey. First edition.

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The amulet; or Christian and literary remembrances. Containing two Hannah More poems, ‘The Petition of the Negro Boy’ and ‘The Bazaar’. London, Philadelphia.

1793[HM] An estimate of the Religion of the Fashionable World. London. 5th edition.

1837[HM] The book of private devotion, a series of prayers and meditations; with an introductory essay on prayer, chiefly from the works of Hannah More. New York, Boston. First printed in 1832. Revised and enlarged.

Memoirs; letters

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1860 Roberts, Arthur, editor and arranger Letters of Hannah More to Zachary Macaulay, Esq. London. James Nisbett and Co. First edition.

1834 Roberts, William Memoirs of the life and correspondence of Mrs Hannah More. London. R B Seeley and W Burnside. 4 vols. Second edition.

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1834 Roberts, William (continued) Memoirs of the life and correspondence of Mrs Hannah More. London. R B Seeley and W Burnside. 4 vols. Second edition.

1839 Arnold, S G Memoir of Hannah More: with brief notices of her works, contemporaries, etc New York. T Mason and G Lane.

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1838 Taylor, Thomas Memoir of Mrs Hannah More: with notices of her works, and sketches of her contemporaries. London. Joseph Rickerby. First edition. 1838 Thompson, Henry, MA, Curate of Wrington, Somerset The life of Hannah More with notices of her sisters. London, Edinburgh. T Cadell; and W Blackwood and Sons. First edition.

[1885] Buckland, AnnaJ The life of Hannah More. A lady of two centuries. London. Religious Tract Society. First edition.

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1851 Knight, Helen C Hannah More or, life in hall and cottage. New York. M W Dodd. First edition.

The Life of Hannah More with selections from her correspondence. London. Seeley, Jackson and Halliday; and B Seeley. First edition.

1888Yonge, Charlotte M Hannah More London. W H Allen and Co.

Pamphlets


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Nd Anon (1813?) The female preceptor. Containing essays, chiefly on the duties of the female sex; with a variety of useful and polite literature, poems, etc, embellished with several beautiful engravings. Conducted by a lady. London. 2 vols. First edition.

1799 [Wolcott, John] Nil admirari; or a smile at a bishop; occasioned by an hyperbolical eulogy on Miss Hannah More, by Dr Beilby Porteus … by Peter Pindar, Esq. London. W & C Spilsbury for West and Hughes. First edition.

1821 [William Wordsworth] Lost Valentines found; with other trifles in rhyme. London. T & J Allman. First edition.

1802 [Blagdon Controversy] [Shaw, William] The life of Hannah More. With a critical review of her writings. By the Rev Sir Archibald MacSarcasm, Bart. London. T Hurst. First edition.

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nd [Blagdon Controversy] A collection of nine pamphlets, together with magazine articles from Volume 9 of the Anti-Jacobin Review, and a tipped in letter from Thomas Bere to G P Seymour. First editions.

nd [Blagdon Controversy] A collection of ten pamphlets. First editions.

1801 Glasse, George Henry Louisa: a narrative of facts, supposed to throw light on the mysterious history of ‘The Lady of the Hay-Stack’. London. Third edition.

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1819 [Buckland, A G] Letters on the importance, duty and advantages of early rising. Addressed to heads of families, the man of business, the lover of nature, the student and the Christian. London. Taylor and Hessey. Third edition.

1779 [Cowley, Hannah] Letters of Hannah More and Hannah Cowley Reprinted in The Gentleman’s Magazine, August, 1779, p 407.

1779[Garrick, David] An humble invocation to Miss Hannah More, occasioned by her not having published an elegy on the death of the fully celebrated and much esteemed David Garrick, Esq. The Gentleman’s Magazine, July, 1779, p 367.

1840 Primogenita [pseudonym] Recollections of childhood; or, Sally, the faithful nurse. London, Canterbury and Bristol. First edition.

1859 Roberts, Arthur Mendip annals; or, a narrative of the charitable labours of Hannah and Martha More. Being the journal of Martha More. London. J Nisbett & Co. First edition.

1785 Yearsley, Ann Poems on several occasions. Contains the first work by the ‘Bristol Milkwoman’. London. T Cadell. First edition.

1786 Yearsley, Ann Poems, on several occasions. Contains the first edition of the indignant ‘Autobiographical Narrative’ of the ‘Bristol Milkwoman’ attacking Hannah More for undue meddling in her life. London. G G J and J Robinson. Fourth edition.

1850 Hall, Mrs S C Pilgrimages to English shrines, with notes and illustrations by P W Fairhold F S A. London. Arthur Hall; and Virtue & Co. First edition.

Cheap Repository Tracts and related items

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nd Thornton, Henry (1794 A plan for establishing by subscription a repository of cheap or 1795)publications, on religious and moral subjects; which will be sold at a half-penny, or a penny, and a few to exceed two-pence each.


London.

nd Thornton, Henry (1796)Cheap repository for moral and religious publications. London.

1795 [HM] Cheap repository tracts for the year 1795, including 30 pamphlets (encompassing 35 titles) and a prospectus for the series. A bound volume.

(1800) [HM] Cheap repository tracts, including: The Two Wealthy Farmers, or The History of Mr Bragwell, Parts I-VII; The Life of William Baker; The Two Soldiers; Husbandry Moralized; and The General Resurrection, Part 1. Dublin. William Watson and Son. A bound volume.

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[HM] Cheap repository tracts; entertaining, moral, and religious. Longer tales and some poetry, well suited to the use of boarding schools and private families. London, Bath. A new edition. One of a series of three volumes first published in 1798.

1800 [HM] Cheap repository shorter tracts. Longer tales and some poetry, well suited to the use of boarding schools and private families. London, Bath. A new edition. One of a series of three volumes first published in 1798.

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1800 [HM] Cheap repository tracts for Sunday reading. To which are added; some prayers for individuals and for families. London, Bath. A new edition. One of a series of three volumes first published in 1798.

nd [HM] A volume of miscellaneous tracts with others, entitled 1790s‘Chap Books. Poetry and Prose’. Contains Old Tom Parr, a to earlytrue story (Marshall); The Black Prince, a true story 1800s(J Evans); The Happiness of Britain (Marshall); The Humble Reformer (Marshall); Sweep Soot O! (Marshall) …

[HM] Cheap repository tracts; entertaining, moral and religious consisting of a great variety of separate performances … for the amusement and instruction of the youth of both sexes. Boston. E Lincoln. The first Boston, from the latest English edition.

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1817 [HM] Cheap repository shorter tracts. London, Bath. A new edition. Contains 46 tracts.

nd [HM] Cheap repository tracts, entitled ‘A collection of seven chapbooks’. (1820s?)London. Bound volume.

1839 [HM] Tales for young persons. London. T Allman.

1839 [HM] Tales for the common people. London. Printed for Thomas Tegg.

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1818 [HM] Stories for the middle ranks of society, and tales for the common people. London. T Cadell and W Davies. 2 vols.

1819 [HM] Cheap repository tracts, suited to the present times. London. F C and J Rivington. Thought to be reprints of 15 patriotic and political tracts.

Broadsides – a selection See Detailed Listing of Selected Items, Part 2. (p.95)

Cheap Repository Tracts – unbound

A listing of all unbound Cheap Repository Tracts can be found in the Detailed Listing of Selected Items, Part 2 . (p.97)

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Cheap Repository Tracts Spinney Serial Nos: 2; 3; 4; 5; 6; 7; 9; 10; 12; 13; 15; 16; 19; 20; 21; 22; 23; 24; 25.

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Cheap Repository Tracts


Spinney Serial Nos: 27; 28; 29; 31; 32; 36; 37; 38; 40; 41; 42; 43; 45; 46; 47; 48; 49; 50; 51; 52; 53.

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Cheap Repository Tracts Spinney Serial Nos: 54; 55; 56; 57; 58; 59; 60; 61; 62; 63; 64; 65; 66; 67; 68; 69; 70; 71; 72; 73; 74; 75; 76; 77; 78; 79.

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Cheap Repository Tracts Spinney Serial Nos: 80; 81; 83; 84; 85; 86; 87; 88; 90; 91; 92; 93; 94; 95; 96; 97; 98; 99; 100; 101; 102; 103; 104; 105; 106; 107; 108; 109; 111; 112; 113; 114; 117; 118; 135; 155; 158; 160; 161; 162; 166; 172; 173; 175; 178. Later editions: 4; 10; 10; 13; 19.

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Cheap Repository Tracts Spinney Serial Nos: Later Editions: 19; 21; 23; 25; 27; 28; 29; 31; 34; 36; 37; 38; 40; 41; 43; 46; 47; 49; 52; 54; 55; 59; 61; 62; 65; 68; 69.

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Cheap Repository Tracts Spinney Serial Nos: Later Editions: 71; 77; 80; 84; 85; 88; 90; 93; 99; 100; 101; 104; 105; 107; 108; 126; 178; a selection of uncatalogued titles.

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Cheap Repository Tracts Spinney Serial Nos: Later Editions: a selection of uncatalogued titles. Miscellaneous selection of titles.

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Detailed Listing on Selected Items - Part 2

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[Blagdon Controversy] Nine pamphlets:

1)The Controversy between Mrs Hannah More, and the Curate of Blagdon, by Thomas Bere, MA, Rector of Butcombe, near Bristol. London. 1801. 2) A Letter to the Rev. Thomas Bere, occasioned by his late unwarrantable attack on Mrs Hannah More, by Rev. Sir Abraham Elton, Bart. London. 1801. 3)An Appeal to the Public on the Controversy between Hannah More, The Curate of Blagdon, and the Rev. Sir A Elton, by Thomas Bere. Bath. 1801. 4)Suggestions respecting a plan of National Education, with conjectures on the probable consequences of Non-Descript Methodism in Sunday-Schools, by the Rev. William Shaw, BD, FSA. Bath. 1801. 5)The Blagdon Controversy on the late dispute between the Curate of Blagdon, and Mrs Hannah More, by A Layman. Bath. 1801. 6) Expostulatory letter to Sir Abraham Elton, Bart. in consequence to his late publication addressed to the Rev. Thomas Bere. Bath. 1801. 7) A Statement of Facts relative to Mrs H More’s Schools, occasioned by some late misrepresentations. Bath. 1801. 8)A letter to the Rev. T Bere, by the Rev. J Boak, Rector of Brockley. Bristol. 1801. 9)Something Wrong developed; or, Free remarks on Mrs H More’s Conventicles, seasonably addressed to the Blagdon Controvertists; and inscribed to the Bishop of Bath and Wells. Bristol. 1801.

[Blagdon Controversy] ten pamphlets.

1)An Appeal to the Public on the controversy between Hannah More, the Curate of Blagdon, and the Rev. Sir A Elton, by Thomas Bere, MA. Bath. 1801. 2) Animadversions of the Curate of Blagdon’s Three Publications, entitled the Controversy between Mrs Hannah More and the Curate of Blagdon, &c, An appeal to the public, and An address to Mrs Hannah More. London. 1802. 3)Calumny Refuted, in a reply to several charges advanced by Mr Spencer of Wells, in his pamphlet called ‘Truths’, by the Rev. John Boak, Rector of Brockley. Bath. 1802. 4) The Force of Contrast, or, Quotations, accompanied with Remarks … the Blagdon Controversy. Bath. 1801. 5) Another copy of (1) above, complete. 6) Address to Mrs Hannah More, on the conclusion of the Blagdon Controversy, by Thomas Bere, MA, Curate of Blagdon. Bath. 1801. 7)Another copy of (4) above. 8)Candid Observations on Mrs H More’s Schools: in which is considered their supposed connection with Methodisim. Bath. 1802. 9)Elucidations of character, occasioned by a letter from the Rev. R Lewis, by the Rev. John Boak, Rector of Brockley. Bath. 1802. 10) Address to the members of the Portsea Institution for Educating the Infant Poor in the principles of the Church of England … by a member of the committee. London. 1813.

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Broadsides: Lines. On Time. A hint for the New Year. Christmas Hymn. Bristol. W Bulgin. Turn the Carpet; or, The two weavers; a new song, in a dialogue between Dick and John. 2 copies. Patient Jo; or, the Newcastle collier. J Marshall and S Hazard. A New Christmas Carol. The Election. The Carpenter; or, the danger of evil company. Dublin. Wm Watson. The Gin Shop; or, a peep into a prison. J Marshall and S Hazard. The Sorrows of Yamba; or, the negro woman’s lamentation. J Marshall and S Hazard. To the Tune of Hosier’s Ghost. J Marshall and S Hazard.


The Plow-Boy’s Dream. J Marshall and S Hazard. The Riot; or, half a loaf is better than no bread, in a dialogue between Jack Anvil and Tom Hood. Perth. R Morison. Robert and Richard; or, the ghost of poor Molly, who was drowned in Richard’s mill pond. The Shopkeeper turned Sailor; or, the folly of going out of our element. Part 1. The Market Woman, a true tale; or, honesty is the best policy. J Marshall and S Hazard. Dame Andrews, a ballad. J Marshall and S Hazard. The Sorrows of Yamba; or the negro woman’s lamentation. J Marshall and S Hazard. A New History of a True Book. J Marshall and S Hazard. The Old Man, his Children, and the Bundle of Sticks, a fable. J Marshall and S Hazard. The Roguish Miller; or, nothing got by cheating, a true ballad. J Marshall and S Hazard. The Carpenter; or, the danger of evil company. J Marshall and S Hazard. The Gin-Shop; or, a peep into prison. J Marshall and S Hazard. Patient Joe, or the Newcastle collier. J Marshall and S Hazard. The Riot; or, half a loaf is better than no bread. In a dialogue between Jack Anvil and Tom Hood. J Marshall and S Hazard.

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Elizabeth Carter

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1758 Carter, Elizabeth All the works of Epictetus London. S Richardson. First edition.

1762 Carter, Elizabeth Poems on several occasions. London. John Rivington. First edition.

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1808 [Carter, Elizabeth] Pennington, Montagu, editor Memoirs of the life of Mrs Elizabeth Carter London. F C and J Rivington. 2 vols. Second edition.

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1809 [Carter, Elizabeth] A series of letters between Mrs Elizabeth Carter and Miss Catherine Talbot, from the year 1741 to 1770. London. F C and J Rivington. 4 vols in two. First edition.

Hester Chapone

1775 Chapone, Hester Miscellanies in prose and verse. London. E & C Dilly, and J Walter. First edition.

1777 [Chapone, Hester] A letter to a new-married lady. London. E & C Dilly, and J Walter. First edition.

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1787Chapone, Hester Letters on the improvement of the mind, addressed to a young lady. London. J Walter & C Dilly. 2 vols. A new edition.

1808 [Chapone, Hester] The posthumous works of Mrs Chapone. London. John Murray. 2 vols. Second edition.

Elizabeth Montagu

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1777 Montagu, Elizabeth. An essay on the writings and genius of Shakespeare, compared with the Greek and French dramatic poets. London. Edward and Charles Dilly. Fourth edition.

1777 [Montagu, Elizabeth] Letter from Monsieur Desenfans to Mrs Montagu. Translated by Mrs Griffith. London. T Cadell. First edition.

1809-[Montagu, Elizabeth] 1813 The letters of Mrs Elizabeth Montagu, with some of the letters of her correspondents. London. T Cadell & W Davies. 4 vols. First edition. Vols 1 & 2.

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1809-[Montagu, Elizabeth] - continued 1813 The letters of Mrs Elizabeth Montagu, with some of the letters of her correspondents. London. T Cadell & W Davies. 4 vols. Vols 3 & 4.

1873 [Montagu, Elizabeth] A lady of the last century (Miss Elizabeth Montagu): illustrated in her unpublished letters ... London. Richard Bentley & Son. First edition.

Catherine Talbot

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1772 [Talbot, Catherine] Essays on various subjects. [Bound with] Reflections on the seven days of the week. London. John and Francis Rivington. First edition of first title, seventh edition of second title. 3 vols in one.

Anna Laetitia Barbauld, nee Aikin

1773 [Barbauld Anna Laetitia] Aikin, J and A L. Miscellaneous pieces, in prose. London. J Johnson. First edition.

1775 [Barbauld, Anna Laetitia] Devotional pieces, compiled from the Psalms and the Book of Job: to which are prefixed, thoughts on the devotional taste, on sects, and on establishments. London. J Johnson. First edition.

1790 [Barbauld, Anna Laetitia] An address to the opposers of the repeal of the Corporation and Test Acts. London. J Johnson. First edition.

1821 [Barbauld, Anna Laetitia] Hymns in prose for children. By the author of Lessons for Children. London. Baldwin, Cradock & Jay. Twenty-second edition.

nd [Barbauld, Anna Laetitia] Elliot, Mary Belson [1840’s] Poetic gift: containing Mrs Barbauld’s Hymns, in verse. New Haven. S Babcock.

1877 [Barbauld, Anna Laetitia] Murch, Jerom Mrs Barbauld and her contemporaries; sketches of some eminent literary and scientific Englishwomen. London. Longmans, Green & Co. First edition.

1874 [Barbauld, Anna Laetitia] Le Breton, Anna Laetitia. Memoir of Mrs Barbauld, including letters and notices of her family and friends. London. George Bell & Sons. First edition.

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1792 [Barbauld, Anna Laetitia] Remarks on Mr Gilbert Wakefield’s enquiry into the expediency and propriety of public and social worship. London. J Johnson. First edition.

nd [Barbauld, Anna Laetitia] [1840’s]Evenings at home: or, the juvenile budget opened: consisting of a variety of miscellaneous pieces for the instruction and amusement of young persons. Philadelphia. James Kay Junior & Brother. 2 vols in one.

1864 [Aikin, Lucy] Le Breton, Philip Hemery. Memoirs, miscellanies and letters of the late Lucy Aikin. London. First edition.

Hester Lynch Thrale Piozzi

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1788Piozzi, Hester Lynch Letters to and from the late Samuel Johnson, LL D, to which are added some poems never before printed. London. A Strahan and T Cadell. 2 vols. First edition.

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1789Piozzi, Hester Lynch Observations and reflections made in the course of a journey through France, Italy and Germany. London. A Strahan and T Cadell. 2 vols. First edition. nd [Piozzi, Hester Lynch]

[1890] Mrs Thrale, afterwards Mrs Piozzi. A sketch of her life and passages from her diaries, letters and other writings. Editor L B Seeley, M A. New York. Charles Scribner’s Sons. First edition.

1843 [Piozzi, Hester Lynch] Love letters of Mrs Piozzi, written when she was eighty, to William Augustus Conway. London. John Russell Smith. First edition.

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1904 A later Pepys. The correspondence of Sir William Weller Pepys, Bart, Master in Chancery 1758-1825, with Mrs Chapone, Mrs Hartley, Mrs Montagu, Hannah More, William Franks, Sir James Macdonald, Major Rennell, Sir Nathaniel Wraxall, and others. Editor Alice C C Gaussen. London & New York. John Lane. 2 vols. First edition.

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1850 Kendrick, Miss M and Child, Mrs L M The gift book of biography for young ladies. London. Thomas Nelson. First edition. Includes biographies of Hannah More and Elizabeth Carter.

nd Bethune, Geo W The British female poets: with biographical and critical notices. New York. R Worthington. Later reprint contains material on Hannah More, Elizabeth Carter, Mrs Thrale, and Mrs Barbauld.

nd Dickes, W, illustrator (1890?)Women of worth. A book for girls. London. J S Virtue & Co. First edition. Includes sketches on Mrs Barbauld and Hannah More.

Miscellaneous large items including: Commonplace book of Lady Olivia Sparrow, with holograph. Contributions signed by Hannah More, Charles Grant, John Jebb, John Harford, and John Owen. 1813-1815.

‘Book of Fame’: and other autographs: from Mrs Hannah More to Sir Robert Harry Inglis, Bart. 1832.

Hannah More, portrait. Handwritten date May 5th 1824.

Hannah More, portrait.nd.

Mrs Piozzi, portrait. nd.

Mrs Elizabeth Carter, portrait. nd.

Barley Wood, Wrington, Somersetshire. nd

Hannah More, portrait. Original E Bird, engraving J Godby.

Hannah More, portrait. Original Mr Slater, November 1813, engraving E Scriven. Plan of Barley Wood Estate. Auctioneers Geo. Nichols, Young, Hunt & Co., Bristol. n d.

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Cheap Repository Tracts Listing

Introduction by Elaine Shiner

The Cheap Repository tracts were published by Hannah More, the celebrated eighteenth-century writer and educator, who also wrote almost one-third of them. Her purpose was to provide a cheap alternative, for the literate members of England's lower classes, to both the radical pamphlets appearing in England in the wake of the French Revolution and the lurid tales and bawdy songs provided by chap-book peddlers. More had been very busy in the preceding decades setting up Sunday schools to teach the poor to read, and felt a responsibility to provide them with morally edifying reading materials. Her publishing scheme was subsidized by a large number of concerned subscribers, and this allowed the tracts to be sold very cheaply. The tracts were enormously successful, and over 2 million were distributed in the first year. It is doubtful, however, that this success was due as much to the enthusiasm of the poor, as it was to middle- and upper-class enthusiasts, who bought the tracts in volume to distribute free to their employees and servants. More's Cheap Repository issued 114 tracts between 1795 and 1798 through the printers Samuel Hazard and John Marshall. Although John Marshall continued to issue tracts under the rubric "Cheap Repository" through Dec. 1799, Hannah More and her friends were no longer involved, and these tracts are not considered a part of the Cheap Repository proper. The success of Hannah More's Cheap Repository tracts was enduring, and the tracts were often reprinted in England and America well into the nineteenth century.

The immense success of the Cheap Repository tracts poses a challenge to their bibliographical control. In 1939, G H Spinney published a bibliography of those tracts housed in the British Library, and in the public libraries of Bristol and Bath.(1) In his words:

"In view of the ephemeral nature of these tracts and of the vast quantities which were issued, it is not to be expected that a preliminary list will do more than provide a rough outline of the innumerable issues and editions they went through".(2)

In fact, among the tracts held by the Clark Library are many issues (or editions) not listed in Spinney's bibliography. The purpose of my list is both to provide an inventory of the Clark's holdings and to supplement Spinney's bibliography, by identifying those Clark tracts which appear to correspond to entries in Spinney's bibliography, and those which are not represented there.

In order to allow my list to be used as a supplement to Spinney's bibliograpy, I have followed his format to a great extent, listing the tracts in the same order he listed them, and in individual entries recording the same elements in roughly the same order, with roughly the same punctuation. I have moved some information from the main body of the entry to an accompanying note, which also records copy-specific information.

In dating the tracts, or in approximating their dates of publication, I have followed Spinney's chronology and methodology, based primarily on when the tracts were entered at Stationer’s Hall, how the printers and distributors were listed and designated in the imprints, and on the presence in individual tracts of dated lists of past and future tracts. The dates that appear periodically in bold type in my list may be taken as the earliest possible date of issue for the group of tracts that follow. These are taken from Spinney. The first 22 tracts were all issued on March 3, 1795, and are referred to as “first-day tracts.” Subsequent dates in bold generally correspond to when the tracts were registered. I have tried to list subsequent issues of each tract in chronological order of publication.

The last line in each of my entries lists its corresponding number in Spinney's bibliography, or gives the information that the item is "not in Spinney." Sometimes more than one of the Clark’s tracts corresponds to an entry in Spinney. In these cases, I have followed the Spinney number by (1st), (2nd), etc. These designations are not meant to indicate the order of publication, but only to call attention to an expansion of Spinney’s list.

I hope that a more accurate accounting of the different manifestations of the Cheap Repository tracts will be of interest to scholars studying the tracts either as literature or as a publishing phenomenon, and will help to provide a surer basis for estimating the total number of the tracts printed by Hazard and Marshall.

All but a few of the Clark’s tracts were formerly owned by New York collector Roger Du Broff. Exceptions are noted.

(1) Spinney, G H, Cheap Repository Tracts: Hazard and Marshall Edition. In Transactions of the Bibliographical Society. New ser., v.20, no. 3 (Dec. 1939), p. [293]-340. (2) Ibid, p. 312. (3) Ibid, p. 312-313.

Elaine Shiner has kindly given permission to allow publication of her work, and to note that this list is not yet complete and subject to revision. It is planned that the collected editions and later tracts will be added to the list in due course.

Cheap Repository Tracts, Hazard and Marshal Edition, in the William Andrews Clark Memorial Library: a list of the Library’s holdings, with reference to the 1939 bibliography compiled by G H Spinney. by Elaine Shiner

THE LIST

The Clark’s classification scheme is as follows:

CR = Cheap Repository; first no. following is Spinney serial no.; second no. is Clark copy no.

1795. March 3. “First day tracts,” in alphabetical order.

CR 2-1 Babay. A true story of a good Negro woman. 12 p. Hazard pr., Marshall pr., White. [Not entered.] [May 1795.] Lists future


publications from June 1795. Clark Library copy: printed on blue paper; disbound. Spinney 2a.

CR 2-2 [Aug 1795.] [As above.] Lists future publications from September. A true account of a pious Negro, p. 7-12, re-set, with changes to the text. Clark Library copy: printed on blue paper; disbound; inscription: Renier. Not in Spinney.

CR 2-3 [Sept 1795.] [As above.] Marshall pr., White, Hazard pr Lists future publication from October. A true account of a pious Negro, p. 7-12, preserves the text of CR 2-2. Clark Library copy:cropped at upper edge; disbound? Spinney 2b.

CR 3-1 Book of martyrs. An account of holy men who died for the Christian religion. 24 p. Hazard pr., Marshall, White. [Not entered.] [Mar-May 1795.] Clark Library copy: lacks “no. 18” in ms.; untrimmed; sewn. Spinney 3.

CR 3-2 [June 1795.] [As above.] 22, [2] p. Marshall pr., White, Hazard pr. Lists future publications from July 1795. Clark Library copy: disbound; inscription: Renier. Not in Spinney. Cf. Spinney 3a.

CR 4* The Carpenter; or the danger of evil company. [Signed: Z] p. 1-6. [From the 1795 collected volume] With: The Gin-Shop; The Riot; Patient Joe; The execution of Wild Robert; A new Christmas Carol.

bCR 4-1 The Carpenter; or the danger of evil company. [Signed: Z] Broadside. Hazard pr., Marshall pr., White. [Entered Feb 20, 1795] [May 1795-Jan 1796] Clark Library copy: framed. Not in Spinney.

CR 5-1 The cock-fighter. A true history. 12 p. Hazard, pr., Marshall, White. [Not entered.] [Mar-May 1795.] In Caslon type. Lacks “Entered at Stationer’s Hall” on t.p. Clark Library copy: untrimmed; disbound. Not in Spinney. Cf. Spinney 5.

CR 5-2 [May 1795-Jan 1796.] [As above.] Marshall pr., White, Hazard pr. The words “Cheap Repository” at head of title are within a cartouche of Maltese crosses. Title ill. signed: Lee. Clark Library copy: untrimmed; sewn. Not in Spinney.

CR 5-3 [May 1795-Jan 1796.] [As above.] The words “Cheap Repository,” at head of title are within a cartouche of curved lines and dots. Title ill. signed: Lee. Clark Library copy: disbound; inscription: Renier. Not in Spinney.

CR 5-4 [June 1795.] [As above.] New edition. The words “Cheap Repository” at head of title are between two straight lines. Lists future publications from July. Title ill. signed: Lee. Clark Library copy: disbound; inscription: Renier. Not in Spinney.

CR 6-1 Divine songs attempted in easy language for the use of children by I. Watts D.D. To which are added, prayers for children. 34, [2] p. Marshall pr., White, Hazard pr. [Not Entered.] [May 1795-Jan 1796.] Clark Library copy: untrimmed; bookplate of Mildred Greenhill. Not in Spinney.

CR 7-1 Execution of Maclean, commonly known by the name of The Gentleman Highwayman. 22, [2] p. Hazard pr., Marshall, White. [Not entered.] [Mar-May 1795.] In Caslon type. Printed on wove paper. Clark Library copy: “Entered at Stationers-Hall”, in black letter, cancelled in ink; disbound; inscription: Renier; NOT DUBROFF. Not in Spinney. Cf. Spinney 7.

CR 7-2 [May 1795-Jan 1796.] [As above.] 22 p. Marshall pr., White, Hazard pr. New ed. “Cheap Repository” within a cartouche of curved lines and dots. Clark Library copy: disbound; inscription: Renier; NOT DUBROFF. Not in Spinney.

CR 7-3 [June 1795.] [As above.] 22, [2] p. Marshall pr., White, Hazard pr. Lists future publications from July 1795. “Cheap Repository” between 2 straight lines. Clark Library copy: inscription: Renier; NOT DUBROFF. Not in Spinney.

CR 8* The Gin shop. See CR 4*

bCR 8-1 The Gin shop; or, a peep into a prison. [Signed: Z.] Broadside. Hazard pr., Marshall, White. [Entered Feb 20, 1795.] Woodcut of 2 pretty children behind bars, and goalposts. Clark Library copy: Lacks “no. 11” in ms. Spinney 8.

bCR 8-2 [May 1795-Jan 1796.] [As above.] Marshall pr., White, Hazard pr. Woodcut of two hardened-looking criminals behind bars, and real gallows, with a corpse. Clark Library copy: framed. Not in Spinney.

CR 9-1 History of the plague in London in 1665; with suitable reflections. 23, [1] p. Marshall pr., White, Hazard pr. [Not entered.] [May 1795.]“Cheap Repository,” within a cartouche of curved lines and dots. Lists


future publications from June. Clark Library copy: disbound. Not in Spinney.

CR 9-2 [July 1795.] [As above.] The words “Cheap Repository,” at head of title, are between single lines. Lists future publications from August. Clark Library copy: p. 17-20 torn out; disbound. Not in spinney.

CR 10-1 The history of Tom White, the postilion. [Part I. Signed: Z.] 24 p. Hazard pr., Marshall, White. [Entered Feb 24, 1795.] [Mar-May 1795.] Lists 19 tracts at end, p. 23-24. Clark Library copy: lacks “no. 17” in ms.; disbound; inscription: Renier. Spinney 10.

CR 10-2 [May 1795-Jan 1796.] [As above.] 23, [1] p. Marshall pr., White, Hazard pr. [Woodcut ill., p. 13 (4 x 5 cm), is of a landscape with a church, without figures. Page [1] at end lists 21 publications. Clark Library copy: mutilated at outer edge, with some text affected; disbound. Not in Spinney.

CR 10-3 [June 1795.] [As above.] Hazard pr., Marshall pr., White. [Woodcut ill., p. 13 (6.8 x 7.3 cm.) shows a church-yard with two figures, one in stocks in the fore-ground. Page [1] at end lists future publications from July. Clark Library copy: disbound; inscription: Renier; autograph on t.p.: Griffith Rowlands. Not in Spinney.

CR 10-4 [July 1795.] [As above.] Marshall pr., White, Hazard pr. New edition? Woodcut ill. as in CR10-2. Page [1] at end lists 21 publications. Lists future publications from August. Clark Library copy: untrimmed; sewn together with CR 37-2. Spinney 10b.

CR 10-5 [Jan 1796.] [As above.] New edition? Woodcut ill. as in 10-2. Page [1] at end lists 17 publications. Lists publications from June through December. Clark Library copy: disbound. Not in Spinney.

CR 12-1 Husbandry moraliz’d; or, Pleasant Sunday reading for a farmer’s kitchen. Part 1. 12 p. Hazard pr., Marshall, White. [Not Entered.] [Mar-May 1795.] In Caslon type. “Entered at Stationers Hall” on t.p. Clark Library copy: “Entered at Stationers’ Hall.” cancelled in ink; untrimmed; sewn; inscription: Renier. Not in Spinney.

CR 12-2 [Mar-May 1795.] [As above.] In Caslon type. The title through “Part I.” has been re-set. Lacks “Entered at Stationers Hall.” Clark Library copy: printed on blue paper; disbound; inscription: Renier; disbound. Not in Spinney.

CR 12-3 [May 1795-Jan 1796.] [As above.] Marshall pr., White, Hazard pr. New edition. In Fry type. Clark Library copy: disbound. Spinney 1 12a.

CR 13-1 Life of William Baker, with his funeral sermon, by the Rev. Mr. Gilpin. 24 p. Hazard pr., Marshall, White. [Not Entered.] [Mar-May 1795.] List of 21 publications on p. [3] has “Life of Wm. Baker” as the third title. Clark Library copy: disbound. Spinney 13 (1st).

CR 13-2 [Mar-May 1795.] [As above.] List of 21 publications on p. [3] has “The Shepherd of Salisbury Plain” as the third title. Clark Library copy: printed on blue paper; inscription: Renier; disbound. Spinney 13 (2nd).

CR 13-3 [May 1795-Jan 1796.] [As above.] 23, [1] p. Marshall pr., White, Hazard pr. Advertisement at end lists 21 tracts. Clark Library copy: printed on blue paper?; inscription: Renier; disbound. Not in Spinney.

CR 13-4 [May 1795-Jan 1796.] [As above.] Advertisement at end lists 21 tracts, but varies slightly from CR 13-3. Clark Library copy: disbound; inscription: Renier. Not in Spinney.

CR 13-5 [May 1795-Jan 1796.] [As above.] Advertisement at end lists 21 tracts, but varies slightly from CR 13-3 and CR 13-4. Clark Library copy: untrimmed; sewn; disbound?; bookplate of Mildred Greenhill. Not in Spinney.

CR 13-6 [May 1795-Jan 1796.] [As above.] Advertisement at end lists 23 tracts. Clark Library copy: p. 9-20 cropped at upper margin; disbound; inscription: Renier. Not in Spinney.

CR13-7 [Dec 1795.] [As above.] Lists tracts published June through November. Clark Library copy: disbound. Not in Spinney.

bCR 14-1 The Market woman, a true tale; or, Honesty is the best policy. [Signed: Z.] Broadside. Hazard pr., Marshall, White. [Entered Feb 20, 1795.] Clark Library copy: lacks ‘no. 8’ in ms. Spinney 14.

CR 15-1 Murders. True examples of the interposition of Providence, in the discovery and punishment of murder. [By that famous


magistrate, Mr. Justice Fielding.—p.2] 12 p. Hazard pr., Marshall, White. [Not Entered.] [Mar-May 1795.] Woodcut on t.p. of 2 pretty children behind bars, and goalposts. Clark Library copy: lacks ”No. 16.” in ms.; printed on blue paper; disbound; inscription: Renier Spinney 15.

CR 15-2 [Mar-May 1795.] [As above.] Woodcut on t.p. of two hardened looking criminals behind bars, and real gallows, with a corpse. Clark Library copy: disbound; inscription: Renier. Spinney 15a.

CR 15-3 [May 1795-Jan 1796.] [As above.] Hazard pr., Marshall pr. White. Woodcut as in CR 15-2. Clark Library copy: title leaf and leaf A4 slightly cropped at lower margin; printed on blue paper; disbound; inscription: Renier. Not in Spinney.

CR 16-1 A new history of a true book … Part the first. Broadside. Hazard pr., Marshall, White. [Not entered.] [Mar-May 1795] Clark Library copy: lacks “no.12” in ms.; mounted on thick paper; inscription: Renier. Spinney 16 [Broadside ed.]

CR16-1 A new history of a true book, in verse. 12 p. Hazard pr., Marshall, White. [Not Entered.] [Mar-May 1795] Device of lyre, trumpet, etc., under title. Clark Library copy: “Entered at Stationers Hall” cancelled in ink. “No 4” in ms.; untrimmed; inscription: Renier. Spinney 16 [Duodecimo ed.].

CR 16-2 [Mar-May 1795.] [As above.] With the words ‘true book’ enclosed in an oval ornament. Lacks “Entered at Stationers Hall”. Clark Library copy: disbound; inscription: Renier. Spinney 16a [Duodecimo ed.]

CR 16-3 [May-Dec 1795] [As above.] Hazard pr., Marshall pr., White. Clark Library copy: disbound; inscription: Renier. Spinney 16b.

bCR 17-1 The old man, his children, and the bundle of sticks. A fable. Broadside. Marshall pr., White, Hazard pr. [Not entered.] [May 1795-Jan 1796.] Not in Spinney.

bCR 18-1 The roguish miller; or, Nothing go by cheating. A true ballad. [Signed: Z.] Broadside. Hazard pr., Marshall. [Entered Feb 20, 1795.] [Mar-May 1795] Clark Library copy: lacks “no. 10” in ms.; framed. Spinney 18.

CR19-1 The shepherd of Salisbury-Plain. [By Hannah More, but not signed.] 24 p. Hazard pr., Marshall, White. [Entered Feb 24, 1795.] [Mar-May 1795.] “Entered at Stationers Hall” in roman type. Clark Library copy: “No. 5” in ms.; untrimmed; bookplate: Mildred Greenhill. Spinney 19.

CR 19-2 [Oct 1795.] [As above.] [Signed: Z.] 22, [2] p. Hazard pr., Marshall pr., White. List tracts published from June-September. Clark Library copy: printed on blue paper; bound with CR 27-1 (both are disbound from a larger volume.) Not in Spinney.

CR 20-1 The two shoemakers. [Signed: Z.] 24 p. Hazard pr., Marshall, White. [Entered Feb 20, 1795.] [Mar.-May 1795.] In Caslon type.“Entered at Stationers’-Hall” printed in black-letter. Clark Library copy: has “No. 1” in ms.; untrimmed and unopened; sewn; inscription: Renier. Spinney 20 (1st).

CR 20-2 [Mar-May 1795.] [As above.] In Caslon type. Lacks “Entered at Stationers’-Hall.” Clark Library copy: printed on blue paper; disbound; inscription: Renier. Spinney 20 (2nd).

CR 20-3 [May 1795-Jan 1796.] [As above.] Marshall pr., White, Hazard pr. New edition. In Fry type. “Cheap Repository” within a cartouche of type ornaments. “Entered at Stationers Hall” printed in black-letter. Clark Library copy: disbound. Spinney 20a.

CR 20-4 [May 1795.] [As above.] “Cheap Repository” within a cartouche of type ornaments. “Entered at Stationers Hall” printed in black-letter. Lists future publications from June. Clark Library copy: disbound; Not in Spinney.

CR 20-5 [July 1795.] [As above.] [Unsigned.] 24 p. Marshall pr., White, Hazard pr. “Cheap Repository” between 2 straight lines. “Entered at Stationers Hall” printed in roman type. Lists future publications from August. Clark Library copy: p. 13-24 misprinted, with part of the last line cropped on some pages; printed on blue paper; disbound; inscription: Renier. Not in Spinney.

CR 20-6 [Jan 1796.] [As above.] “Cheap Repository” between 2 straight lines. “Entered at Stationers Hall” printed in roman type. Lists tracts published June through December. Clark Library copy: disbound; Not in Spinney.


CR 21-1 The two soldiers. [Signed: S.] 24 p. Hazard pr., Marshall, White. [Entered Feb. 24, 1795.] [Mar-May 1795]. Clark Library copy: disbound; inscription: Renier. Spinney 21.

CR 21-2 [May 1795-Jan 1796.] [As above.] 24 p. Hazard pr., Marshall, pr., White. Clark Library copy: disbound; inscription: Renier. Spinney 21b.

CR 22-1 Wonderful escape from shipwreck. An account of the loss of His Majesty’s Ship Centaur. 12 p. Hazard p.,, Marshall, White. [Not Entered.] [Mar-May 1795.] In Caslon type. “Entered at Stationers-Hall” in black-letter type. Clark Library copy: disbound; inscription: Renier. Not in Spinney. Cf. Spinney 22.

CR 22-2 [Mar-May 1795.] [As above.] In Caslon type. Lacks “Entered at Stationer’s Hall.” Clark Library copy: disbound; inscription: Renier. Not in Spinney. Cf. Spinney 22.

CR 22-3 [May 1795.] [As above.] 12 p. Hazard pr., Marshall pr., White. New edition. In Fry type. Lists future publications from June. Clark Library copy: disbound. Spinney 22a.

CR 22-4 [Aug 1795.] [As above.] Lists future publications from September. Clark Library copy: printed on blue paper; disbound; inscription: Renier. Spinney 22b.

CR 22-5 [Dec 1795.] [As above.] Marshall pr., White, Hazard pr. Pages 11- 12 set in Caslon type. Lists tracts published June-Nov. 1795. Clark Library copy: disbound. Not in Spinney

1795. May

CR 23-1 The Lancashire collier girl. A true story. 16 p. Hazard pr., Marshall pr., White. [Not Entered.] [Oct 1795.] Lists tracts published from June through September. Clark Library copy: disbound; inscription: Renier. Not in Spinney.

CR 24-1 Sunday Reading, Part 1. On the Religious Advantages of the present Inhabitants of Great Britain. 12 p. Hazard pr., Marshall pr, White. [Entered May 4, 1795.] [May 1795.] Lists future publications from June. Clark Library copy: untrimmed; disbound. Not in Spinney. Cf. Spinney 24.

CR 24-2 [May 1795.] Sunday Reading, on the Religious Advantages of the Present Inhabitants of Great Britain. 12 p. Hazard pr., Marshall pr., White. [Entered May 4, 1795.] Lists future publications from June. A different (or reduced) woodcut from that in CR24-2 is used, in which the roof-end of the distant church bears no cross. Clark Library copy: disbound; inscription: Renier. Not in Spinney.

CR 24-3 [Aug 1795.] [As above.] Lists future publications from September. Woodcut as in CR 24-2. Clark Library copy: printed on blue paper; disbound; inscription: Renier. Spinney 24a.

1795. June

CR 25-1 Sunday Reading. The beggarly boy. A parable. 22, [2] p. Marshall pr., White, Hazard pr. [Entered May 30, 1795.] [June 1795.] “Cheap Repository” between 2 straight lines, and in the imprint, the words “Bow Lane” are absent following “Aldermary Church-Yard.” Lists future publications from July. Clark Library copy: untrimmed; disbound; inscription: Renier. Not in Spinney.

CR 25-2 [June 1795.] Sunday Reading. The beggarly boy. A religious parable. 22, [2] p. Marshall pr., White, Hazard pr. New edition.“Cheap Repository” between 2 straight lines, and, in the imprint, the words “Bow Lane” are absent following “Aldermary Church-Yard.” Lists future publications from July. Clark Library copy: untrimmed and unopened; sewn. [CHECK FOR FORMAT.] Not in Spinney. Cf. Spinney 25.

CR 25-3 [July 1795.] Sunday Reading. The beggarly boy. A parable. 22, [2] p. Marshall pr., White, Hazard pr. “Cheap Repository” within a cartouche of parentheses and small dots, and the words “Bow Lane” have been added to the imprint following “Aldermary Church-Yard.” Lists future publication from August. Clark Library copy: untrimmed; disbound. Not in Spinney.

CR 26* Execution of Robert Wild. See CR 4*

CR 27-1 The shepherd of Salisbury Plain. Part II. [Signed: Z.] 30, [2] p. Hazard pr., Marshall pr., White. [Entered May 27, 1795.] [June 1795.] Lists future publications from July. Clark Library copy: printed on blue paper; bound with CR 19-2 (both disbound from a larger volume.) Not in Spinney. Cf. Spinney 27.


CR 27-2 [Feb 1976?] [As above.] 34, [2] p. Marshall pr., White, Hazard.“Cheap Repository” between 2 straight lines, and the words “Bow Lane” follow “Aldermary Church-Yard” in the imprint. Lists publications through December 1795. Clark Library copy: disbound. Not in Spinney.

CR 27-3 [Feb 1976?] [As above.] “Cheap Repository.” above a single straight line; “Bow Lane” are absent following “Aldermary Church- Yard” in the imprint. Advertisements vary slightly from 27-2. Lists publications through December 1795. Clark Library copy: sewn; disbound? Not in Spinney.

1795. July

CR 28-1 Sunday Reading. Daniel in the den of lions. 24 p. Marshall pr., White, Hazard pr. [Entered June 29, 1795.] [July 1795.] Lists future publications from August. Clark Library copy: disbound?; inscription: Renier. Spinney 28a.

CR 28-2 [Feb 1796?] [As above.] Marshall pr., White, Hazard. Lists publications from June through December 1795. Clark Library copy: disbound. Spinney 28b.

CR 29-1 The good mother’s legacy. [Signed: S.] 24 p. Marshall pr., White, Hazard pr. [Entered June 29, 1795.] [July 1795-Jan 1796.] Clark Library copy: disbound; inscription: Renier. Spinney 29?

CR 29-2 [Jan-July 1797.] [As above.] Marshal pr., White, Hazard, Elder. Clark Library copy: disbound. Not in Spinney.

CR 30* Patient Joe. See CR 4*

bCR 30-1 Patient Joe, or the Newcastle collier. [Signed: Z.] Broadside. Hazard pr., Marshall pr., White. [Entered June 19, 1795.] [July 1795- Jan 1796.] Clark Library copy: Framed. Spinney 30.

bCR 30-2 [July 1795-Jan 1796.] [As above.] Marshall pr., White, Hazard pr. Clark Library copy: bound. Not in Spinney.

1795. August.

CR 31-1 The happy waterman. 12 p. Hazard pr., Marshall pr., White. [Entered July 30, 1795.] [Aug 1795.] The woodcut has been cut down to fit the page. Lists future publications from September. Clark Library copy: printed on blue paper; disbound; inscription: Renier. Not in Spinney. Cf. Spinney 31.

CR 32-1 Sunday Reading for August, 1795. Hints to all ranks of people on the occasion of the present scarcity. 32 p. Hazard pr., Marshall pr., White. [Entered July 30, 1795.] [Aug 1795.] Clark Library copy: disbound; inscription: Renier. Not in Spinney. Cf. Spinney 32, with abbreviated title.

CR 32-2 [later in August, 1795?] [As above.] At the end is a note saying the Two Farmers (which had been promised for September) was to be postponed until after that date, Tom White, Pt. II taking its place on 1 Sept. Clark Library copy: untrimmed; disbound; inscription: Renier. Not in Spinney. Cf. Spinney 32a, with the same note at the end, but with a variant imprint.

bCR 33-1 The plow-boy’s dream. [Signed: M. (i.e. William Mason).] Broadside. Marshall pr., White, Hazard pr. [Entered Jul 24, 1795.] [Aug. 1795-Jan. 1796.] Spinney 33.

CR 34* The riot. See CR 4*

bCR 34-1 The riot; or; half a loaf is better than no bread. In a dialogue between Jack Anvil and Tom Hod. To the tune of “A cobbler there was,” &c. [Signed: Z.] Broadside. Marshall pr., White, Hazard pr. [Entered July 24, 1795.] [Aug 1795-Jan1796.] Clark Library copy: framed. Spinney 34.

1795. September

bCR 35-1 Dame Andrews, a ballad. Broadside. Hazard pr., Marshall pr., White. [Entered Aug 31, 1795.] [Sept. 1795-Jan. 1796.] Spinney 35.

CR 36-1 Sunday Reading. Noah’s flood. 24 p. Hazard pr., Marshall pr., White. [Entered Aug 31, 1795.] [Sept 1795.] Lists future publications from October. Clark Library copy: untrimmed; disbound;


Not in Spinney. Cf. Spinney 36.

CR 36-2 [Dec 1795.] [As above.] 21, [3] p. Marshall pr., White, Hazard pr. Lists publications from June through November. Clark Library copy: untrimmed; sewn; bookplate of Mildred Greenhill. Not in Spinney.

CR 37-1 The way to plenty: or, The second part of Tom White. [Signed: Z.] 34, [2] p. Marshall pr., White, Hazard pr. [Entered Aug 31, 1795.] [Sept 1795.] Lists future publications from October, but does not list “The second part of Tom White; or The way to plenty” as one of the tracts issued in September. Clark Library copy: untrimmed; sewn together with CR 10-4. Not in Spinney. Cf. Spinney 37.

CR 37-2 [Later in September, 1795?] [As above.] Lists future publications from October., and lists “The second part of Tom White; or The way to plenty” as one of the tracts issued in September. Clark Library copy: disbound. Not in Spinney. Cf. Spinney 37.

1795. October

CR 38-1 Sunday Reading. The Harvest home. 22, [2] p. Marshall pr., White, Hazard pr. [Entered Sept 16, 1795.] [Oct 1795.] Lists future publications from October. October publications include “The Harvest Home”. Clark Library copy: untrimmed; disbound. Not in Spinney. Cf. Spinney 38.

CR 38-2 [Feb 1796?] [As above.] 22, [2] p. Marshall pr., White, Hazard. Lists publications from June through December. Clark Library copy: untrimmed; disbound. Not in Spinney.

CR 40-1 The two wealthy farmers, or, The history of Mr. Bragwell. Part I. [Signed: Z] 24 p. Hazard pr., Marshall pr., White. [Entered Sept 21, 1795.] [Oct 1795.] Lists future publications from November. Clark Library copy: untrimmed; sewn together with 43-2. Spinney 40. Intended for September publication. See note to Spinney 32a.

CR 40-2 [Dec 1795?] [As above.] Marshall pr., White, Hazard pr. Lists publications from June through November. Clark Library copy: untrimmed and unopened; sewn. Not in Spinney.

CR 40-3 [Dec 1795?] [As above.] Lists publications from June through November. List of publications re-set from CR 40-2. Clark Library copy: disbound. Not in Spinney.

1795. November

CR 41-1 Sunday reading. The parable of the laborers in the vineyard. 33, p. Marshall pr., White, Hazard pr. [Entered Oct 23, 1795.] [Nov 1795.] “Entered at Stationers Hall” in roman type. The advertisements in CR 41-2 list this title as published on the first of November. Clark Library copy: disbound; inscription: Renier. Spinney 41. NO COPY YET SEEN.—SPINNEY.

CR 41-2 [Nov 1795.] [As above.] 33, [3] p. Marshall pr., White, Hazard pr. Lists publications from June through November. “Entered at Stationers Hall” in black-letter type. Lists “The parable of the vineyard” as published on the 1st of November. Clark Library copy: disbound; inscription: Renier. Not in Spinney.

bCR 42-1 The sorrows of Yamba; or, the Negro woman’s lamentation. To the tune of Hosier’s Ghost. Broadside. Marshall pr., White Hazard pr. [Entered Oct 29, 1795] Title, text, and ill. inside ornamental border. “Cheap Repository” precedes title beneath border. Not in Spinney.

bCR 42-2 [As above.] Title, text, and ill. inside ornamental border. “Cheap Repository” precedes title in parentheses, as a part of the border. Not in Spinney.

CR 42-3 [Nov. 1795.] The sorrows of Yamba; or, The Negro woman’s lamentation. 12 p. Marshall pr., White, Hazard pr. 4 ill. in the text. [Entered Oct 29, 1795.] (Incorrectly) lists future publications from October. Clark Library copy: disbound; inscription: Renier. Not in Spinney. Cf. Spinney 42a.

CR 43-1 The two wealthy farmers, or, The history of Mr. Bragwell. Part II. [Signed: Z.] 24 p. Hazard pr., Marshall pr., White. [Entered Oct 31, 1795.] [Nov 1795.] Lists future publications for Dec. Clark Library copy: untrimmed and unopened; sewn. Not in Spinney. Cf. Spinney 43.

CR 43-2 [Jan 1796.] [As above.] Marshall pr., White, Hazard pr. Lists publications from June through December. Clark Library copy: printed on blue paper; untrimmed; sewn together with CR 40-1. Not in Spinney. 1795. December


CR 44* A new Christmas carol. See CR 4*

CR 45-1 Sorrowful Sam; or, The two blacksmiths. [Signed: S.] 24 p. Hazard pr., Marshall pr., White. [Entered Dec 3, 1795.] [Dec 1795.] Clark Library copy: disbound. Spinney 45. [Used in 1795 collected edition.]

CR 46-1 Sunday reading. The troubles of life; or, The guinea and the shilling. 35, [1] p. Marshall pr., White, Hazard pr. 12mo, 10 ill. in the text. [Entered Dec 3, 1785,] [Dec 1795.] Lists publications from June through November. “Entered at Stationers Hall” in black-letter type. Clark Library copy: disbound; inscription: Renier. Not in Spinney. Cf. Spinney 46.

CR 46-2 [Dec 1795.] Sunday reading. The troubls [!] of life; or, The guinea and the shilling. 35, [1] p. Marshall pr., White, Hazard pr. 10 ill. in the text. Lists publications from June through November.“Entered at Stationers Hall” in black-letter type. Clark Library copy: p. 17-20 damaged, with some loss of text; disbound; inscription: Renier. Not in Spinney.

CR 46-3 [Jan 1796.] Sunday reading. The troubles of life; or, The guinea and the shilling. 35, [1] p. Marshall pr., White, Hazard pr. 10 ill. in the text. (Incorrectly) lists future publications from October through December. “Entered at Stationers Hall” in roman type. Clark Library copy: disbound. Not in Spinney.

CR 46-4 [Jan 1796.] The troubles of life; or, The guinea and the shilling. 35, [1] p. Marshall pr., White, Hazard pr. 10 ill. in the text. Lacks “Sunday reading.” preceding title, and caption ‘Sickness, sorrow, and death.” beneath the title ill. “Entered at Stationers Hall” in roman type. (Incorrectly) lists future publications from October through December. Clark Library copy: disbound; inscription: Renier. Not in Spinney.

1796. January

CR 47-1 The history of Mary Wood the house-maid; or, the danger of false excuses. 24 p. Hazard, pr., Marshall pr., White. [Entered Jan 1, 1796?] [Jan. 1796.] Clark Library copy: untrimmed; sewn. Spinney 47.

CR 47-2 [May 1796.] The history of Mary Wood. The house-maid; or, the danger of false excuses. 22, [2] p. Marshall, pr., White, Hazard. Lists publications from June 1795 through April 1796. Last word on line 12, p. 22 is “the”. Clark Library copy: Last line of type on t.p. cropped; disbound. Not in Spinney.

CR 47-3 [May 1796.] The history of Mary Wood. The House-maid. Or, the danger of false excuses. 22, [2] p. Marshall pr., [White, Hazard.] Lists publications from June 1795 through April 1796. Last word on line 12, p. 22 is “merits”. Clark Library copy: t.p. damaged, with most of imprint lacking; disbound; inscription: Renier. Not in Spinney.

bCR 48-1 Robert and Richard; or, the ghost of poor Molly, who was drowned in Richard’s mill pond. To the tune of Collins’s Mulberry tree. [Unsigned.] Sh.s. obl. fol. No imprint. [Entered Jan 1, 1796.] [Feb-Dec 1796.] Clark Library copy: mounted on thick paper; inscription: Renier. Not in Spinney. Cf. Spinney 48, which is signed: Z.

CR 48-2 [Feb-Dec 1796.] [As above.] 4 p. Marshall pr., White, Hazard, pr. 1 ill. in the text. Clark Library copy: disbound. Not in Spinney.

CR 48-3 [March 1796.] [As above.] [Signed: Z.] 7, [1] p. Marshall pr., White, Hazard, pr. 1 ill. Lists publications through Feb 1796. Clark Library copy: disbound; inscription: Renier. Not in Spinney.

CR 48-4 [Jan-July 1797.] [As above.] [Unsigned.] 7, [1] p. Marshall pr., White, Hazard, Elder. 1 ill. in the text. Lists publications through Sept 1796. “Contains lists reaching only to Sept 1796. Yet the evidence is strong that Elder joined in January 1797. The monthly lists do not appear to have been revised after September 1796 …”— Spinney. (note to 48b, p. 322) Clark Library copy: printed on blue paper; inscription: Renier; disbound. Spinney 48b.

CR 49-1 Sunday reading. Some new thoughts for the New Year. 24 p. Marshall pr., White, Hazard, pr. [Entered Jan 1, 1796.] [Jan 1796.] Clark Library copy: disbound. Spinney 49.

CR 49-2 [Feb-Dec 1796.] [As above.] Marshall pr., White, Hazard. Clark Library copy: printed on blue paper?; disbound; inscription: Renier. Spinney 49a.

CR 49x-1 The middle way’s the best. 8 p. Marshall pr., White, Hazard, pr. [Entered Jan 1, 1796.] Probably suppressed before publication, according to Spinney. Clark Library copy: printed on blue paper?; disbound; inscription: Renier. Not in Spinney, but see Spinney, p. 322, following entry 49a.


1796. February

CR 50-1 The apprentice turned master; or, The second part of The two Shoemakers. Shewing how James Stock from a parish apprentice became a creditable tradesman. 16 p. Marshall pr. White, Hazard, pr. [Entered Feb 1, 1796.] [Feb-Mar 1796?] Probably issued before Spinney 50. Clark Library copy: disbound. Not in Spinney, but see note to Spinney 50.

CR 50-2 [Apr-Dec 1796?] [As above.] [Signed: Z.] 16 p. Marshall pr., White, Hazard. Clark Library copy: disbound; inscription: Renier. Spinney 50.

CR 50-3 [Jan-July 1797.] [As above.] Marshall pr., White, Hazard, Elder. Clark Library copy: disbound; Not in Spinney.

CR 51-1 The story of Sinful Sally. Told by herself. Shewing how from being Sally of the green she was first led to become Sinful Sally, and afterwards Drunken Sal, and how at last she came to a most melancholy and almost hopeless end; being therein a warning to all young women both in town and country. 8 p. Marshall pr., White, Hazard, pr. 5 ill. in the text. [Entered Feb 1 1796.] Probably issued before Spinney 51-51b. Clark Library copy: untrimmed; sewn. Not in Spinney, but see note to Spinney 50.

CR 51-2 [Apr-Dec 1796?] [As above.] Marshall pr., White, Hazard. 2nd line of imprint ends “Religious and Moral”. “Cheap Repository” in Roman caps; price under imprint. Clark Library copy: in red paper wrappers; shelf-mark and accession no.(?) at bottom of p. 8. Spinney 51a.

CR 51-3 [Apr-Dec 1796?] [As above.] 2nd line of imprint ends “Moral and re-” “Cheap Repository” in italic caps; price above cut. Clark Library copy: disbound. Spinney 51b.

CR 52-1 Sunday Reading. The touchstone; or, The way to know a true Christian. Being a description of the character of our blessed Savior, with an inquiry whether we are like Him. To which is added, An appeal first to infidels, and then to persons who call themselves by the name of Christians. 16 p. Marshall pr., White, Hazard, pr. [Entered Feb 1, 1796.] [Feb-Mar 1796?] ‘Price one penny.’ Probably issued before Spinney 52. Clark Library copy: printed on blue paper; disbound; inscription: Renier. Not in Spinney, but see note to Spinney 50.

CR 52-2 [Feb-Mar 1796?] [As above.] “Price 1d. or 4s. 6d. per 100 …” Probably issued before Spinney 52. Clark Library copy: untrimmed; sewn. Not in Spinney, but see note to Spinney 50.

CR 52-3 [Apr-Dec 1796?] [As above.] Marshall pr., White, Hazard. Clark Library copy: disbound. Spinney 52.

CR 52-4 [Jan-July 1797.] [As above.] Marshall pr., White, Hazard, Elder Cheaper edition for hawkers. Clark Library copy: disbound inscription: Renier. Not in Spinney. Cf. Spinney 52a.

CR 52-5 [Jan-July 1797.] [As above.] Cheaper edition for hawkers. Lines 17-18 of t.p. reset relative to CR 52-4. Clark Library copy: disbound; inscription: Renier. Not in Spinney. Cf. Spinney 52a.

1796. March

CR 53-1 The history of idle Jack Brown. Containing the merry story of the mountebank, with some account of the bay mare Smiler. Being the third part of The two shoemakers. [Signed: Z.] 21, [3] Marshall pr., White, Hazard, pr. [Entered Feb 29, 1796.] [Mar 1796?] Probably issued before Spinney 53. Contains list of publications from June 1795-Feb 1796. Clark Library copy: unopened; sewn. Not in Spinney, but see note to Spinney 50.

CR 53-2 [May 1796?] [As above.] Marshall pr., White, Hazard. Lists publications fRom June 1795-April 1796. Clark Library copy: printed on blue paper?; disbound; inscription: Renier. Not in Spinney.

CR 53-3 [Jan-July 1797.] [As above.] Marshall pr., White, Hazard, Elder. Cheaper edition for hawkers. Lists publications from June 1795-April, (See note to CR48-3.) Clark Library copy: printed on blue paper; disbound; inscription: Renier. Not in Spinney. Cf. Spinney 53a.

CR 54-1 Sunday reading. Onesimus; or, The run-away servant converted. A true story. Shewing what a wonderful improvement in his condition Onesimus experienced after he became a Chirstian. To which is added an affectionate address to all those unhappy persons, both men and women, who, like Onesimus, have left their home and have got into any bad way of living, and who have also a mind to hear how they may get out. 16 p. Marshall pr., White, Hazard, pr. [Entered Feb 29, 1796.] [Mar. 1796?] “Price one penny.” Probably issued before Spinney 54. Clark


Library copy: printed on blue paper?; untrimmed; sewn. Not in Spinney, but see note to Spinney 50.

CR 54-2 [Mar 1796?] [As above.] “Price 1d. or 4s. 6d. per 100 …” Probably issued before Spinney 54. Clark Library copy: disbound. Not in Spinney, but see note to Spinney 50.

CR 54-3 [Apr-Dec 1796?] [As above.] Marshall pr., White, Hazard. Clark Library copy: disbound; inscription: Renier. Spinney 54.

CR 54-4 [Aug-Nov 1797.] [As above.] Marshall pr., Hazard, Elder. Cheaper edition for hawkers. Appears to be reset after p. 9. Clark Library copy: disbound; inscription: Renier. Spinney 54a.

bCR 55-1 The shopkeeper turned sailor, or, The folly of going out of our element. Shewing what a clever man John the shopkeeper was in his own business, and what a rash step he took in resolving to go upon the water. Part 1. [Signed: Z.] Sh.s obl. fol. No imprint. [Entered Feb 29, 1796.] Clark Library copy: mounted on thick paper; inscription: Renier. Spinney 55.

CR 55-2 [Mar 1796?] [As above.] 8 p. Marshall pr., White, Hazard, pr. Probably issued before Spinney 55a. Clark Library copy: disbound. Not in Spinney, but see note to Spinney 50. Cf. Spinney 55a.

CR 55-3 [Mar 1796?] [As above.] [Unsigned.] 8 p. Marshall pr., White, Hazard, pr. Clark Library copy: disbound. Spinney 55a. See note to Spinney 50.

CR 55-4 [Apr-Dec 1796?] [As above.] Marshall pr., White, Hazard. Clark Library copy: printed on blue paper; disbound; inscription: Renier. Spinney 55b.

1796. April

CR 56-1 Sunday reading. The conversion of St. Paul the Apostle. 16 p. Marshall pr., White, Hazard. [Entered Apr. 1, 1796.] [Apr-Dec 1796.] “Entered at Stationer’s Hall” in italics. Clark Library copy: disbound; inscription: Renier. Spinney 56.

CR 56-2 [Apr-Dec 1796.] [As above.] “Entered at Stationers Hall” in black- letter. Clark Library copy: disbound. Spinney 56a.

CR 56-3 [Nov 1797-?] [As above.] Marshall pr., Hazard. Clark Library copy: disbound; inscription: Renier. Spinney 56b.

CR 57-1 Jack Brown in prison; or, The pitcher never goes so often to the well but it is broke at last. Being the fourth part of The history of the two shoemakers. [Signed: Z.] 23, [1] p. Marshall pr., White, Hazard. 2 ill. in the text [Entered Apr 1, 1796.] [Apr-Dec 1796.]‘Entered at Stationers Hall’ in italics. Clark Library copy: unopened. Spinney 57.

CR 57-2 [Apr-Dec 1796.] [As above.] 16 p. Marshall pr., White, Hazard. 2 ill. in the text. A new edition. Clark Library copy: printed on blue paper?; disbound; inscription: Renier. Not in Spinney.

CR 57-3 [June or July 1796?] [As above.] 23, [1] p. Marshall pr., White, Hazard. 2 ill. in the text. Same edition as 57-1. “Entered at Stationers Hall” in black letter. List tracts published from April 1795- June 1796. Clark Library copy: disbound. Spinney 57a.

CR 57-4 [Aug-Nov 1797.] [As above.] Marshall pr., Hazard, Elder. 2 ill. in the text. Cheaper edition for hawkers. Lists publications from June 1795-Apr. 1796. (See note to CR48-3.) Clark Library copy: disbound; inscription: Renier. Spinney 57b. See note following Spinney 48b.

CR 58-1 John the shopkeeper turned sailor; or, The folly of going out of our element. In which a particular account is given of the several branches of this worthy family. Part II. [Signed: Z.] 8 p. Marshall pr., White, Hazard. 3 ill. in the text. [Entered Jan. 4, 1796.] [Feb-Dec 1796] Clark Library copy: disbound; inscription: Renier. Not in Spinney.

CR 58-2 [Feb-Dec 1796.] [As above.] [Unsigned.] 8 p. Marshall pr., White, Hazard. 3 ill. in the text. Clark Library copy: disbound; inscription: Renier. Spinney 58.

CR 58-3 [Jan-July 1797.] [As above.] Marshall pr., White, Hazard, Elder. 3 ill. in the text. Clark Library copy: disbound; inscription: Renier. Not in Spinney. Cf. Spinney 58a.

1796. May


CR 59-1 Sunday reading. The general Resurrection, part I. Being a description, taken from Scripture, of some of the events which will come to pass at the end of the world. 8 p. Marshall pr., White, Hazard. [Entered May 2, 1796.] [May-Dec 1796.] 2nd line of imprint ends “Religious and Moral.” Clark Library copy 1: disbound; Clark Library copy 2: disbound; inscription: Renier. Spinney 59.

CR 59-2 [May-Dec 1796.] [As above.] 2nd line of imprint ends “Moral and Religious.” Clark Library copy: disbound; inscription: Renier. Spinney 59a.

CR 60-1 The hackney coachman; or, The way to get a good fare. To the tune of “I wish I was a Fisherman,” &c. [Signed: Z.] 6, [2] p. Marshall pr., White, Hazard. [Entered May 2, 1796.] [May 1796?] “Finis” at end. Lists tracts published from June 1795-April 1796. Clark Library copy: printed on blue paper; untrimmed; sewn. Spinney 60.

CR 60-2 [June or July 1796?] [As above.] “The End” at end. Lists tracts published from June 1795-July 1796. Clark Library copy: disbound; inscription: Renier. Spinney 60a.

CR 61-1 The history of Charles Jones, the footman. Written by himself. 16 p. Marshall pr., White, Hazard. [Entered May 2, 1796.] [May-Dec 1796.] 2nd line of imprint ends “Moral and Religious.” “Entered at Stationers Hall” In italics. Clark Library copy: untrimmed and unopened; sewn. Spinney 61 (1st).

CR 61-2 [May-Dec 1796.] [As above.] 2nd line of imprint ends “ Religious and”. “Entered at Stationers Hall” in black-letter type. Clark Library copy: disbound; inscription: Renier. Spinney 61 (2nd).

CR 61-3 [Nov 1797-?] [As above.] Marshall pr., Hazard. Cheaper edition for hawkers. Clark Library copy: disbound; inscription: Renier. Spinney 61a.

1796. June

CR 62-1 The Cheapside apprentice; or, The history of Mr. Francis H****. Fully setting forth the danger of playing with edge tools. Shewing also, how a gay life may prove a short one; and that a merry evening may produce a sorrowful morning. [“The Hymn,” p. 16, signed: S.] 16 p. Marshall pr., White, Hazard. [Entered May 31,1796.] [June-Dec 1796.] 2nd line of imprint ends “Moral and Religious”. “Entered at Stationers Hall” in italics. Clark Library copy: untrimmed and unopened; sewn. Spinney 62.

CR 62-2 [June-Dec 1796.] [As above.] 2nd line of imprint ends “Religious and”. “Entered at Stationers Hall” in black letter type. Clark Library copy: disbound; inscription: Renier. Spinney 62a.

CR 62-3 [Jan-July 1797.] [As above.] [“The Hymn,” p. 16, unsigned.] 16 p. Marshall pr., White, Hazard, Elder. Cheaper edition for hawkers. Clark Library copy: disbound. Not in Spinney.

CR 62-4 [Nov 1797-?] [As above.] Marshall pr., Hazard. Cheaper edition for hawkers. Clark Library copy: disbound; inscription: Renier. Not in Spinney.

bCR 63-1 The election. A quite new song. Shewing many things which are now doing, and which ought not to be done. Being a song very fit to be sung in all places where an election is going on. Broadside. No imprint. [Not entered, Cf. Spinney.] [June 1796?] In Caslon type. Clark Library copy: mounted on thick paper; inscription: Renier. Spinney 63

CR 63-2 [June 1796.] To the tune of—Dusky Night. 7, [1] p. Marshall pr., White, Hazard. [Not entered, see Roberts ii, 479.] 2nd line of imprint ends “ Moral and Re-“. Lists publications from June 1795-Mar 1796. Clark Library copy: disbound; inscription: Renier. Spinney 63a.

CR 63-3 [July or Aug 1796.] [As above.] 2nd line of imprint ends “Religious and Moral”. Lists publications from Sept 1795-July 1796.] Clark Library copy: disbound; inscription: Renier. Spinney 63b.

CR 64-1 Sunday reading. On carrying religion into the common business of life. A dialogue between James Stock and Will Simpson, the shoemakers, as they sat at work. [Signed: Z.] 14, [2] p. Marshall pr., White, Hazard. [Entered May 31, 1796.] [June 1796.] 2nd line of imprint ends “for Religi-”. A second line of price information follows“Price one penny.” Lists publications from Aug 1795-May 1796. Clark Library copy: disbound; inscription: Renier. Spinney 64 (1st.)

CR 64-2 [June 1796.] [As above.] 2nd line of imprints ends “for Religi-”. Lacks 2nd line of price information following “Price one penny.” Lists publications from Aug 1795-May 1796. Clark Library copy: 1st leaf mutilated, with text affected; disbound. Spinney 64 (2nd.)


CR 64-3 [July or Aug 1796.] [As above.] 2nd line of imprint ends: “for Moral”. Lists publications from June 1795-July 1796. Clark Library copy: disbound; inscription: Renier. Spinney 64a.

CR 64-4 [Jan-July 1797.] [As above.] Marshall pr., White, Hazard, Elder. Cheaper edition for hawkers. Lists publications from June 1795-April (See note to CR48-3.) Clark Library copy: disbound; inscription: Renier. Not in Spinney.

1796. July

CR 65-1 The gamester. 15, [1] p. Marshall pr., White, Hazard. [Entered June 30, 1796.] July-Dec 1796.] Text ends “The End”. 2nd line of imprint ends “for Moral”. “Great Allowance”, etc. in Roman. “Entered at Stationers Hall” in italics. Clark Library copy: untrimmed and unopened; sewn. Spinney 65.

CR 65-2 [July-Dec 1796.] [As above.] Text ends “Finis”. 2nd line of imprint ends “Religious and”; “Great Allowance”, etc. in italics. “Entered at Stationers Hall” in black-letter type. Clark Library copy: disbound; inscription: Renier. Spinney 65a.

CR 66-1 Look at home; or, The accusers accused. Being an account of the manner in which our Savior put to silence the scribes and Pharisees, when they brought to him the woman taken in adultery. 14, [2] p. Marshall pr., White, Hazard. [Entered June 30, 1796.] [July 1796.] 2nd line of imprint ends “for Reli-”. “Great allowance” etc. in Roman type. Lists publications from Aug 1795- Mar 1796, and for June 1796 (titles are incorrect.) Clark Library copy: disbound; inscription: Renier. Spinney 66 (1st.)

CR 66-2 [July 1796.] [As above.] 2nd line of imprint ends “for Reli-”. “Great allowance” etc. in Roman type. Lists publications from Aug 1795- June 1796. Clark Library copy: disbound; inscription: Renier. Spinney 66 (2nd.)

CR 66-3 [July 1796?] [As above.] 2nd line of imprint ends “Moral and Re-”.“Great Allowance” etc. in italics. Lists publications from Sept 1795- July 1796. Clark Library copy: “43” in ms. on t.p.; disbound. Spinney 66a.

CR 66-4 [Jan-July 1797.] [As above.] Marshall pr., White, Hazard, Elder. Cheaper edition for hawkers. Lists publications from June 1795-Apr (See note to CR48-3.) Clark Library copy: disbound; inscription: Renier. Spinney 66b.

bCR 67-1 Turn the carpet; or, the two weavers: a new song, in a dialogue between Dick and John. Broadside. No imprint. [Entered June 30, 1796.] [June-Dec 1796.] 1 ill precedes title. Not in Spinney. Cf. Spinney 67, signed: Z.

bCR 67-2 [June-Dec 1796.] [As above.] 2 ill. precede title. Not in Spinney. Cf. Spinney 67, signed: Z.

CR 67-3 [July-Dec 1796.] [As above.] [Signed: Z.] 7, [1] p. Marshall pr., White, Hazard. 1 woodcut ill. Clark Library copy: Title ill. partially hand-colored; sewn; inscription: Renier. Spinney 67b.

CR 67-4 [July-Dec 1796.] [As above.] Lists publications from June 1795-Mar 1796. Not in Spinney.

1796. August

CR 68-1 Betty Brown, the St. Giles’s orange-girl: some account of Mrs. Sponge, the money-lender. [Signed: Z.] 16 p. Marshall pr., White, Hazard. [Entered Aug 1, 1796.] [Aug-Dec 1796.] Clark Library copy: disbound; inscription: Renier. Spinney 68.

CR 68-2 [Jan-July 1797.] [As above.] [Unsigned.] 16 p. Marshall pr., White, Hazard, Elder. Cheaper edition for hawkers. Clark Library copy: disbound. Not in Spinney.

CR 68-3 [Nov 1797-?] [As above.] Marshall pr., Hazard. Cheaper edition for hawkers. Clark Library copy: disbound; Spinney 68a.

CR 69-1 A Sunday Reading. The Grand Assizes; or, General Goal[!] Delivery. [Signed: Z.] 13, [3] p. Marshall pr., White, Hazard. [Entered Aug 1, 1796.] [Aug 1796?] Lists publications from June 1795-July 1796. Clark Library copy: “44” in ms. on t.p.; disbound. Not in Spinney. Cf. Spinney 69.

CR 70-1 John the shopkeeper turned sailor; Part III. How John and his family actually took boat, and how they had for a while a most delightful sail on the wide ocean. 8 p. Marshall pr., White, Hazard. 2 woodcut ill. in the text. [Entered Aug 1, 1796.] [Aug-Dec 1796.] Clark Library copy: disbound; inscription: Renier. Spinney 70.

1796. September


CR 71-1 Sunday reading. Explanation of the nature of baptism; designed especially for all those parents, who are about to bring a child to be baptized. 16 p. Marshall pr., White, Hazard. [Entered Aug 31, 1796.] [Sept-Dec 1796.] 2nd line of imprint ends “for Religi-”. “Great Allowance” etc. in Roman type. 2nd line of price information follows“Price one penny.” Clark Library copy: disbound. Spinney 71 (1st.)

CR 71-2 [Sept-Dec 1796.] [As above.] 2nd line of imprint ends “for Religi-”. “Great Allowance” etc. in Roman type. Lacks 2nd line of price information following “Price one penny.” Clark Library copy: untrimmed and unopened; inscription: Renier. Spinney 71 (2nd.)

CR 71-3 [Sept-Dec 1796.] [As above.] 2nd line of imprint end “Moral and Re-”. “Great Allowance” etc in italics. Clark Library copy: untrimmed and unopened; sewn. Spinney 71a.

CR 71-4 [Jan-July 1797.] [As above.] Marshall pr., White, Hazard, Elder. Cheaper edition for hawkers. Clark Library copy: disbound; inscription: Renier. Spinney 71b.

CR 72-1 The history of Mr. Bragwell; or, The two wealthy farmers. Part III. [Signed: Z.] 16 p. Marshall pr., White, Hazard. [Entered Aug 31, 1796.] [Sept-Dec 1796.] Clark Library copy: untrimmed and unopened; sewn. Spinney 72.

CR 72-2 [Jan-July 1797.] [As above.] Marshall pr., White, Hazard, Elder. Cheaper edition for hawkers. Clark Library copy: numbered “105”-“120” in ms.; disbound. Not in Spinney.

CR 73-1 A hymn of praise for the abundant harvest of 1796. [Signed: Z.] 8 p. Marshall pr., White, Hazard. [Entered Aug 31, 1796.] [Sept- Dec 1796.] 2nd line of imprint ends “for Moral”. “Great Allowance” etc. in Roman type. Clark Library copy: disbound; inscription: Renier. Spinney 73 (1st)

CR 73-2 [Sept-Dec 1796.] [As above.] 2nd line of imprint ends “Moral and Re-”. “Great Allowance” etc. in italics. Clark Library copy: disbound; inscription: Renier. Spinney 73 (2nd)

CR 73-3 [Sept-Dec 1796.] [As above.] [Unsigned.] 8 p. Marshall pr., White, Hazard. 2nd line of imprint ends “Moral and Re-”. “Great Allowance” etc. in italics. Clark Library copy: disbound; inscription: Renier. Spinney 73 (3rd). 1796. October

CR 74-1 Sunday reading. The history of the two wealthy farmers; or, A new dialogue, between Mr. Bragwell and Mr. Worthy. Part IV. [Signed: Z.] 15, [1] p. Marshall pr., White, Hazard. [Entered Sept 30, 1796.] [Oct 1796.] Clark Library copy: untrimmed and unopened; sewn. Spinney 74.

CR 74-2 [Jan-July 1797.] [As above.] Marshall pr., White, Hazard, Elder. Cheaper edition for hawkers. Lists publications from June 1795-Sept (See note to CR48-3.) Clark Library copy: disbound; 1797; inscription: Renier. Not in Spinney. Cf. Spinney 74a.

CR 74-3 [Aug-Nov 1797.] [As above.] Marshall pr., Hazard, Elder. Cheaper edition for hawkers. Lists tracts published in 1795. Clark Library copy: disbound; inscription: Renier. Not in Spinney. Cf. Spinney 74b.

CR 75-1 King Dionysius and Squire Damocles; a new song on an old story. Proper to be sung at all feasts and merry-makings. [Signed: Z.] 8 p. Marshall pr., White, Hazard. [Entered Sept 30, 1796.] [Sept-Dec 1796.] Clark Library copy: sewn. Spinney 75.

CR 76-1 The two wealthy farmers, with the sad adventures of Miss Bragwell. Part V. [Signed: Z.] 16 p. Marshall pr., White, Hazard. [Entered Sept 30, 1796.] [Sept-Dec 1796.] Clark Library copy: disbound; inscription: Renier. Spinney 76.

CR 76-2 [Jan-July 1797.] [As above.] [Unsigned.] 16 p. Marshall pr., White, Hazard, Elder.Cheaper edition for hawkers. Clark Library copy: disbound; inscription: Renier. Spinney 76a.

CR 76-3 [Aug-Nov 1797.] [As above.] Marshall pr., Hazard, Elder. Cheaper edition for hawkers. Clark Library copy: disbound; inscription: Renier. Spinney 76b.

1796. November

CR 77-1 Black Giles the poacher; with some account of a family who had rather live by their wits than their work. Part I. [Signed: Z.] 16 p. Marshall pr., White, Hazard. [Entered Oct. 21, 1796.] [Nov-Dec 1796.] 2nd line of imprint ends “Moral and Religious”.


“Great Allowance” etc in italics. Ornament at end: bunch of flowers, tied with a ribbon. Clark Library copy: disbound; inscription: Renier. Spinney 77.

CR 77-2 [Nov-Dec 1796.] [As above.] Cheaper edition for hawkers. 2nd line of imprint ends “for Moral”. “Great Allowance” etc. in Roman type. Ornament at end: a circle of leaves, with ribbon at bottom. Clark Library copy: disbound; inscription: Renier; bound with “Black Giles the Poacher. With the history of Widow Brown’s apple-tree. Part II.” (CR 81-2). Spinney 77a.

CR 78-1 The Hampshire tragedy: shewing how a servant maid first robbed her master, and was afterwards struck dead for telling a lie. A true story. 8 p. Marshall pr., White, Hazard. [Entered Oct 19, 1796.] [Nov-Dec 1796.] Clark Library copy: printed on blue paper; disbound; inscription: Renier. Spinney 78.

CR 78-2 [Jan-July 1797.] [As above.] Marshall pr., Hazard, White, Elder Cheaper edition for hawkers. 6th line of imprint ends “and by”. Clark Library copy: disbound; inscription: Renier. Spinney 78a (1st).

CR 78-3 [Jan-July 1797.] [As above.] Cheaper edition for hawkers. 6th line of imprint ends “and”. Clark Library copy: sewn. Spinney 78a (2nd).

CR 79-1 Sunday reading. [By Henry Thornton?] Prayers to be used by a child or young person—by a grown person—by the master or mistress of a Sunday School—and by the master or mistress of a family. 24 p. Marshall pr., White, Hazard. [Entered Nov 1, 1796.] [Nov-Dec. 1796.] Last line on p. 24 (preceding “The End.”): Our Father, &c. Clark Library copy: untrimmed; disbound. Spinney 79 (1st).

CR 79-2 [Nov-Dec 1796.] [As above.] New edition? Last line on p. 24 (preceding “The End.”: May the Grace, &c. Clark Library copy: sewn. Spinney 79 (2nd).

CR 79-3 [Jan-July 1797.] [As above.] Cheaper edition for hawkers. 2nd line of imprint ends “Religious and”. Clark Library copy: disbound; inscription: Renier. Spinney 79a (1st).

CR 79-4 [Jan-July 1797.] [As above.] Cheaper edition for hawkers. 2nd line of imprint ends “Moral and re-”. Clark Library copy: disbound; inscription: Renier. Spinney 79a (2nd).

1796. December

CR 80-1 Sunday reading. Bear ye one another’s burthens; or, The valley of tears: a vision. [Signed: Z.] 8 p. Marshall pr., White, Hazard. [Entered Nov 28, 1796.] [Dec 1796.] Additional line of price information follows “Price One Halfpenny.” Clark Library copy: printed on blue paper?; disbound; inscription: Renier. Spinney 80 (1st).

CR 80-2 [Dec 1796.] [As above.] Lacks additional line of price information following “Price One Halfpenny.” Clark Library copy: folded sheet, untrimmed, unopened. Spinney 80 (2nd).

CR 80-3 [Jan-July 1797.] [As above.] Marshall pr., White, Hazard, Elder. Cheaper edition for hawkers. Clark Library copy: disbound; inscription: Renier. Spinney 80a.

CR 81-1 Black Giles the poacher. With the history of Widow Brown’s apple-tree. Part II. [Signed: Z.] 16 p. Marshall pr., White, Hazard. [Entered Nov 28, 1796.] [Dec 1796.] Clark Library copy: disbound; inscription: Renier. Spinney 81.

CR 81-2 [Nov 1797-?] [As above.] Marshall pr., Hazard. Clark Library copy: disbound; bound with “Black Giles the poacher; with some account of a family who had rather live by their wits than their work.” (CR77-2) Not in Spinney.

1797. January

CR 83-1 The bad bargain; or, The world set up to sale. 7, [1] p. Marshall pr., Hazard, Elder. [Entered Dec 30, 1796.] [Aug-Nov 1797.] Lists publications from June 1795-April 1796. (See note to CR48-3.) Clark Library copy: printed on blue paper; disbound; inscription: Renier. Not in Spinney.

CR 83-2 [Aug-Nov 1797.] [As above.] “A Cheaper Edition for Hawkers.” Lists publications from Oct 1795-July 1796. (See note to CR48-3.) Clark Library copy: disbound. Spinney 83a.

CR 84-1 The cottage cook, or, Mrs. Jones’s cheap dishes; shewing the way to do much good with little money. 16 p. Marshall pr., White, Hazard, Elder. [Entered Dec 30, 1796.] [Jan-July 1797.] Cheaper edition for hawkers. Clark Library copy: folded sheet, untrimmed and unopened. Spinney 84.


CR 84-2 [Aug-Nov 1797.] [As above.] Marshall pr., Hazard, Elder. Cheaper edition for hawkers. Clark Library copy: disbound; inscription: Renier. Spinney 84a.

CR 85-1 Sunday reading. On the sacrament of the Lord’s Supper. 14, [2] p. Marshall pr., Hazard, Elder. [Entered Dec 30, 1796.] [Aug-Nov, 1797.] Cheaper edition for hawkers. Lists publications from June 1795-Apr 1796. (See note to CR48-3.) Clark Library copy: disbound; inscription: Renier. Not in Spinney.

1797. February

CR 86-1 The good militia man; or, The man that is worth a host, being a new song by Honest Dan the plough-boy turned soldier. [Signed: Z.] 8 p. Marshall pr., White, Hazard, Elder. [Entered Jan 26, 1797.] [Feb-July 1797.] Cheaper edition for hawkers. Clark Library copy: disbound; inscription: Renier. Spinney 86.

CR 87-1 Sunday reading. The story of Joseph and his Brethren. Part I. 14, [2] p. Marshall pr., White, Hazard, Elder. [Entered Jan 27, 1797] [Feb-July 1797.] [Jan 1797?] Cheaper edition for hawkers. Lists tracts published in 1795 and 1796. Clark Library copy: pages numbered in ms. 401-416; disbound. Spinney 87.

CR 87-2 [Aug-Nov 1797.] [As above.] Marshall pr., Hazard, Elder. N.B. Spinney has Aug-Oct. Cheaper edition for hawkers. Clark Library copy: printed on blue paper; disbound; inscription: Renier. Spinney 87a.

CR 88-1 The wonderful advantages of adventuring in the lottery!!! 16 p. Marshall pr., White, Hazard, Elder. [Entered Jan 26, 1797.] [Feb- July 1797.] Clark Library copy: disbound. Not in Spinney.

CR 88-2 [Feb-July 1797.] [As above.] Cheaper edition for hawkers. Clark Library copy: untrimmed and unopened; sewn. Spinney 88.

1797 March

CR 90-1 The hubbub; or, The history of farmer Russel the hard-hearted overseer. [Signed: S.] 16 p. Marshall pr., White, Hazard, Elder. [Entered Feb 27, 1797.] [Mar-July 1797.] Cheaper edition for hawkers. Clark Library copy:disbound; inscription: Renier. Spinney 90.

CR 91-1 Sunday reading. Joseph in prison. Part II. 14, [2] p. Marshall pr., White, Hazard, Elder. [Entered Feb 27, 1797.] [Mar-July 1797. Cheaper edition for hawkers. Lists tracts published in 1795 and Clark Library copy: disbound; inscription: Renier. Not in Spinney.

CR 92-1 Sunday reading. Joseph delivered out of prison. The story of Joseph and his brethren. Part III. 16 p. Marshall pr., White, Hazard, Elder. [Entered Mar. 27, 1797.] [Apr-July 1797.] Cheaper edition for hawkers. Clark Library copy: disbound; numbered in ms. 433-447; disbound. Spinney 92.

1797. April

CR 92-2 [Aug-Nov 1797.] [As above.] Marshall pr., Hazard, Elder. N.B. Spinney has Aug-Oct. Cheaper edition for hawkers. Clark Library copy: disbound; inscription: Renier. Spinney 92a.

CR 93-1 Tawny Rachel, or, The fortune teller; with some account of dreams, omens and conjurers. [Signed: Z.] 16 p. Marshall pr., White, Hazard, Elder. [Entered Mar 16, 1797.] [Apr-July 1797.] Cheaper edition for hawkers. Clark Library copy: disbound; inscription: Renier. Spinney 93.

CR 94-1 Dick and Johnny; or, The last new drinking song. 8 p. Marshall pr., White, Hazard, Elder. [2nd title entered Mar 31, 1797.] [Apr-July 1797.] Cheaper edition for hawkers. “The true heroes; or, The noble army of martyrs,” p. [5]-8. Clark Library copy: disbound; inscription: Renier. Spinney 94. Cf. Spinney 89.

1797. May

CR 95-1 Sunday reading. Joseph and his brethren. Part IV. 16 p. Marshall pr., White, Hazard, Elder. [Entered Apr 25, 1797.] [May- July 1797.] Cheaper edition for hawkers. 2nd line of imprint ends“Moral and Re-”. Clark Library copy: disbound; inscription: Renier. Spinney 95.

CR 95-2 [May-July 1797.] [As above.] Cheaper edition for hawkers. 2nd line of imprint ends “Moral and Religious”. Clark Library copy: disbound; inscription: Renier. Spinney 95a.

CR 96-1


The Sunday school. [Signed: Z.] 16 p. Marshall pr., White, Hazard, Elder. [Entered Apr 25, 1797.] [May-July 1797.] Cheaper edition for hawkers. Clark Library copy: disbound; bound with CR 99- 2 and CR 101-2. Spinney 96.

CR 97-1 The two gardeners. [Signed: Z.] 6, [2] p. Marshall pr., White, Hazard, Elder. [Entered Apr 25, 1797.] [May or June 1797.] Cheaper edition for hawkers. Lists tracts published in 1795 and 1796. Clark Library copy: disbound. Not in Spinney. Cf. Spinney 97.

1797. June

CR 98-1 The day of judgment; or, The grand reckoning. [Signed: Z.] 8 p. Marshall pr., White, Hazard, Elder. [Entered May 27, 1797.] [June or July 1797.] Clark Library copy: disbound. Not in Spinney.

CR 98-2 [June or July 1797.] [As above.] Cheaper edition for hawkers. Clark Library copy: printed on blue paper; disbound; inscription: Renier. Spinney 98.

CR 99-1 The history of Hester Wilmot; or, The second part of The Sunday school. [Signed: Z.] 14, [2] p. Marshall pr., White, Hazard, Elder. [Entered May 27, 1797.] [June or July 1797.] Lists tracts published in 1795 and 1795. Clark Library copy: disbound. Not in Spinney.

CR 99-2 [June or July 1797.] [As above.] Cheaper edition for hawkers. Includes “Great allowance will be made to shopkeepers and Hawkers.” Lists tracts published in 1795 and 1795. Clark Library copy: disbound; bound with CR 96-1 and CR 101-2. Spinney 99.

CR 99-3 [June or July 1797.] [As above.] Cheaper edition for hawkers. Lacks“Great allowance will be made to shopkeepers and Hawkers.” Lists tracts published in 1795 and 1796. Clark Library copy: disbound; inscription: Renier. Spinney 99a.

CR 100-1 Sunday reading. The servant man turned soldier; or, The fair weather Christian. A parable. [Signed: Z.] 15, [1] p. Marshall pr., White, Hazard, Elder. [Entered May 27, 1797.] [June or July 1797.] Cheaper edition for hawkers. Lists tracts published in 1796. Clark Library copy: disbound; inscription: Renier. Spinney 100.

1797. July

CR 101-1 The history of Hester Wilmot: or, The new gown. Part II. Being a continuation of The Sunday school. [Signed: Z.] 16 p. Marshall pr., White, Hazard, Elder. [Entered June 26, 1797.] [July 1797.] Cheaper edition for hawkers. Clark Library copy: disbound; inscription: Renier. Spinney 101.

CR 101-2 [Aug-Nov 1797.] [As above.] Marshall pr., Hazard, Elder. Cheaper edition for hawkers. Clark Library copy: disbound; bound with CR 96-1 and 99-2. Spinney 101a.

CR 102-1 The lady and the pye; or, Know thyself. [Signed: Z.] 8 p. Marshall pr., White, Hazard, Elder. [Entered May 27, 1797.] [June or July 1797.] Cheaper edition for hawkers. Clark Library copy: disbound; inscription: Renier. Not in Spinney. Cf. Spinney 102.

CR 103-1 Sunday reading. The Straight Gate and the Broad Way, being the second part of The valley of tears. [Signed: Z.] 16 p. Marshall pr., White, Hazard, Elder. [Entered June 26, 1797.] [July 1797.] Cheaper edition for hawkers. Clark Library copy: disbound; inscription: Renier. Not in Spinney. Cf. Spinney 103.

1797. August

CR 104-1 Sunday reading. The explanation of The Ten Commandments. Part I. 16 p. Marshall pr., Hazard, Elder. [Entered July 31, 1797.] [Aug 1797.] Cheaper edition for hawkers. Clark Library copy: bound in plain brown paper, with CR 110-1 and CR 112-2. Spinney 104.

CR 105-1 The history of Mr. Fantom, the new fashioned philosopher and his man William. [Signed: Z.] 23, [1] p. Marshall pr., Hazard, Elder. [Entered July 31, 1797.] [Aug-Nov 1797.] Cheaper edition for hawkers. Lists tracts published in 1795. Clark Library copy: disbound; inscription: Renier. Not in Spinney. Cf. Spinney 105.

CR 106-1 The loyal sailor; or, No mutineering. 8 p. Marshall pr., Hazard, Elder. [Entered July 31, 1797.] [Aug-Nov 1797.] Cheaper edition for hawkers. Includes “Great Allowance will be made to Shopkeepers and Hawkers.” Clark Library copy: printed on blue paper; disbound; inscription: Renier. Spinney 106.

CR 106-2 [Aug-Nov 1797.] [As above.] Cheaper edition for hawkers. Lacks“Great Allowance will be made to Shopkeepers and


Hawkers.” Clark Library copy: disbound. Spinney 106a.

1797. September

CR 107-1 The history of diligent Dick; or, Truth will out though it be hid in a well. [Signed: S.] 16 p. Marshall pr., Hazard, Elder. [Entered Aug 31, 1797.] [Sept-Nov 1797.] Cheaper edition for hawkers. Clark Library copy: printed on blue paper; disbound; inscription: Renier. Spinney 107.

CR 108-1 Sunday reading. The pilgrims. An allegory. [Signed: Z.] 16 p. Marshall pr., Hazard, Elder. [Entered Aug 31, 1797.] [Sept-Nov 1797.] Cheaper edition for hawkers. Clark Library copy: disbound; inscription: Renier. Spinney 108.

1797. October

CR 109-1 Dan and Jane; or Faith and works. A tale. [Signed: Z.] 7, [1] p. Marshall pr., Hazard, Elder. [Entered Sept 30, 1797.] [Oct or Nov 1797.] Cheaper edition for hawkers. Lists tracts published in 1795. Clark Library copy: printed on blue paper?; disbound; circular stamp (p. 7): Cock Inn, Forden Heath 1794. Not in Spinney. Cf. Spinney 109.

CR 110-1 Sunday reading. The explanation of The Ten Commandments. Part II. 15, [1] p. Marshall pr., Hazard, Elder. [Entered Sept 20, 1797.] [Oct or Nov 1797.] Cheaper edition for hawkers. Lists tracts published in 1796. Clark Library copy: printed on blue paper; bound in plain brown paper with CR 104-1 and CR 112-2. Spinney 110.

CR 111-1 The two wealthy farmers; or, The sixth part of The history of Mr. Bragwell and his two daughters. [Signed: Z] 22, [2] p. Marshall pr., Hazard, Elder. [Entered Sept 30, 1797.] [Oct or Nov 1797.] Cheaper edition for hawkers. Lists tracts published in 1795 and Clark Library copy: printed on blue paper; disbound; inscription: Renier. Spinney 111.

1797. November

CR 112-1 Sunday reading. The explanation of The Ten Commandments. Part III. 23, [1] p. Marshall pr., Hazard, Elder. [Entered Oct 30, 1797.] [Nov 1797.] Cheaper edition for hawkers. Lists tracts published in 1796. Clark Library copy: printed on blue paper; disbound; inscription: Renier. Spinney 112.

CR 112-2 [Dec 1797-Dec 1799.] [As above.] Printed by John Marshall. List tracts published in 1796. Not part of the Cheap Repository proper? Clark Library copy: bound in plain brown paper wrapper with CR 104-1 and CR 110-1. Not in Spinney. See Spinney 115ff.

CR 113-1 The two wealthy farmers; or, The seventh and last part of The history of Mr. Bragwell and his two daughters. [Signed: Z.] 16 p. Marshall pr., Hazard, Elder. [Entered Oct 19, 1797.] [Nov 1797.] Clark Library copy: disbound. Spinney 113.

CR 113-2 [Nov 1797.] [As above.] Cheaper edition for hawkers. Clark Library copy: printed on blue paper; disbound; inscription: Renier. Not in Spinney. Cf. Spinney 113.

CR 114-1 The plum-cakes; or, The farmer and his three sons. [Signed: Z.] 8 p. Marshall pr., Hazard. [Entered Oct 30, 1797.] [Nov 1797-?] Cheaper edition for hawkers. Clark Library copy: printed on blue paper; disbound; inscription: Renier. Not in Spinney. Cf. Spinney 114.

1797. December

CR 117-1 Sunday Reading. The widow of Zarephath. 15, [1] p. Printed by John Marshall. [Entered Nov 30, 1797.] [Dec 1797-Dec 1799.] Clark Library copy: numbered in ms. 1-16; disbound; inscription: Renier. Spinney 117. Not a part of the Cheap Repository proper.

1797. January

CR 118-1 The affectionate orphans. 16 p. Printed by John Marshall. [Entered Jan 1, 1798.] [Jan 1798-Dec 1799.] Clark Library copy: numbered in ms.: 17; disbound; inscription: Renier. Spinney 118. Not a part of the Cheap Repository proper.

1798. June

CR 135-1 The murder in the wood. [Signed: W.] 16 p. Printed by John Marshall. [Entered June 1, 1798.] [June 1798-Dec 1799.] Clark Library copy: disbound: inscription: Renier. Spinney 135. Not a part


of the Cheap Repository proper.

1799. January

CR 155-1 Domestic contrasts; or, The different fortunes of Nancy and Lucy. Part I. [Signed: W.] 16 p. Printed by John Marshall. [Entered?] [Jan 1798-Dec 1799.] Clark Library copy: disbound; inscription: Renier. Spinney 155. Not a part of the Cheap Repository proper.

CR 158-1 Domestic contrasts; or, The different fortunes of Nancy and Lucy. Part II. 15, [1] p. Printed by John Marshall. [Entered?] [Feb- Dec 1799.] “A list of tracts,” p. [1] at end. Clark Library copy: disbound; inscription: Renier. Spinney 158. Not a part of the Cheap Repository proper.

CR 160-1 The sorrows of Hannah: a ballad, (to the tune of The lamentation of Mary Queen of Scots) addressed to her husband, then under sentence of transportation for a first act of dishonesty, to which he had been tempted by extreme indigence. [Signed: F.] 8 p. Printed and sold by John Marshall. [Entered Mar 6, 1799?] [Mar- Dec 1799.] Clark Library copy: disbound; inscription: Renier. Spinney 160. Not a part of the Cheap Repository proper.

CR 161-1 Cicely; or, The power of honesty. 8 p. Printed and sold by John Marshall. [Entered Mar 15, 1799?] [Mar-Dec 1799.] Clark Library copy: printed on blue paper; disbound; inscription: Renier. Spinney 161. Not a part of the Cheap Repository proper.

CR 162-1 Domestic contrasts; or, The different fortunes of Nancy and Lucy. Part III. [Signed: W.] 15, [1] p. Printed and sold by John Marshall. 8vo? [Entered Mar 15, 1799?] [Mar-Dec 1799.] “A list of tracts,” p. [1] at end. Clark Library copy: disbound; inscription. Renier. Spinney 162. Not a part of the Cheap Repository proper.

CR 166-1 The miraculous supply; or, The widow in the time of famine. [Signed: S.S.] 8 p. Printed and sold by John Marshall. [Entered Apr 4, 1799.] [Apr-Dec 1799.] Clark Library copy: disbound; inscription: Renier. Spinney 166. Not a part of the Cheap Repository proper. CR 172-1 Sunday reading. The Shropshire devotion. [Signed: W.] 14, [2] Printed and sold by John Marshall. [Entered June 16, 1799?] [Jun-Dec 1799.] “A list of tracts,” p. [1]-[2] at end. Clark Library copy: printed on blue paper; disbound; inscription: Renier. Spinney 166. Not a part of the Cheap Repository proper.

CR 173-1 Sunday reading. Cottage prayers. Being intended as a second part to the Shropshire rector, &c. 14, [2] p. Printed and sold by John Marshall. [Entered July 14, 1799?] [July-Dec 1799.] “A list of tracts,” p. [1]-[2] at end. Colophon, p. [2] at end. Clark Library copy: disbound; inscription: Renier. Spinney 173. Not a part of the Cheap Repository proper.

CR 175-1 The patient father; or, The young sailor’s return. 8 p. Printed and sold by John Marshall. [Entered July 14, 1799?] [July-Dec 1799.] Clark Library copy: printed on blue paper; disbound; inscription: Renier. Spinney 175. Not a part of the Cheap Repository proper.

CR 178-1 Sunday reading. The divine model; or, The Christian’s exemplar. [Signed: A.R.] 15, [1] p. Printed and sold by John Marshall. [Entered Aug. 5, 1799?] [Aug-Dec 1799.] “A list of tracts,” p. [1] at end. Clark Library copy: printed on blue paper?; disbound; inscription: Renier. Spinney 178. Not a part of the Cheap Repository proper.

Later Editions and Miscellaneous Items are not included in the listing compiled by Elaine Shiner. These listings include titles of tracts and number of copies for each, and for some items publisher and publication date. The number at the start of each item refers to the Spinney serial number.

Later editions

4 - The carpenter; or, the danger of evil company. bound with The sorrows of Yamba; or, the Negro woman’s lamentations. 1 copy.

10 - The history of Tom White, the postillion, First part. 1 copy. The history of Tom White, the postillion, in two parts. 3 copies.

13 - The life of William Baker; with his funeral sermon, by the Rev Mr Gilpin. 5 copies.

19 - The Shepherd of Salisbury Plain, in two parts. 2 copies.

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19 - The shepherd of Salisbury Plain, in two parts. 3 copies.

21 - The two soldiers. 3 copies.

23 - The Lancashire collier girl; a true story. 3 copies.


25 - Sunday Reading. The beggarly boy. A parable. 2 copies.

27 - Second part of the shepherd of Salisbury-Plain. 1 copy.

28 - Sunday Reading. Daniel in the den of lions. 2 copies.

29 - The good mother’s legacy. 7 copies.

31 - The happy waterman. 4 copies.

34 - The riot; or, half a loaf is better than no bread; The good militia man; or, the man that is worth a host; and The loyal sailor; or, no mutineering. 1 copy.

36 - Sunday Reading. Noah’s flood. 2 copies.

37 - The history of Tom White, the postillion. Second part. 1 copy.

38 - Sunday Reading. The harvest home. 2 copies. 40 - The two wealthy farmers; or the history of Mr Bragwell. Part 1. 1 copy.

41 - Sunday Reading. The parable of the laborers in the vineyard. 2 copies.

43 - The two wealthy farmers; or, the history of Mr Bragwell. Part II. 1 copy.

46 - The troubles of life; being a familiar description of the troubles of the poor laborer, the little shopkeeper, the great tradesman, the sickly man, the disappointed lover, the unhappy husband, the widower; and lastly, the child of sorrow. To which is added The story of the guinea and the shilling, being a cure for trouble in general. 1 copy.

47 - The history of Mary Wood the house-maid; or, the danger of false excuses. 6 copies.

49 - Sunday Reading. Some new thoughts for the New Year. 2 copies.

52 - Sunday Reading. The touchstone; or, the way to know a true Christian. 2 copies.

54 - Sunday Reading. Onesimus: or, the run-away servant converted. 1 copy.

55 - John the shopkeeper turned sailor: or, the folly of going out of our element. In four parts. 1 copy.

59 - Sunday Reading. The general resurrection, and day of judgement. 1 copy.

61 - The history of Charles Jones, the footman. 5 copies.

62 - The Cheapside apprentice, or, the history of Mr Francis H****. 2 copies. 65 - The gamester; to which is added the story of sinful Sally, told by herself. 1 copy.

68 - Betty Brown, the St Giles’s orange girl: with some account of Mrs Sponge, the money-lender. 2 copies.

69 - The grand assizes; or, general goal delivery. 1 copy.

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71 - Sunday Reading. Explanation of the nature of baptism. 2 copies.

77 - Black Giles, the poacher: with some account of a family who had rather live by their wits than their work. In two parts. 5 copies.

80 - Sunday Reading. The valley of tears, a vision. In two parts. 1 copy.

84 - The cottage cook; or, Mrs Jones’s cheap dishes. 5 copies.

85 - Sunday Reading. On the Sacrament of the Lord’s Supper. 1 copy.

88 - The wonderful advantages of venturing in the Lottery !!! or, the history of John Doyle. 1 copy.

90 - The hubbub; or, the history of Farmer Russel, the hard-hearted overseer. 1 copy

93 - Tawney Rachel; or, the fortune teller: with some account of dreams, omens and conjurors.

99 - The history of Hester Wilmot. In two parts. Being a continuation of the Sunday School. 6 copies.


100 - The servant man turned soldier; or, the fair weather Christian. A parable. 1 copy.

101 - The history of Hester Wilmot; or, the new gown: Part II. Being a continuation of the Sunday School. 1 copy.

104 - Sunday Reading. The explanation of the Ten Commandments. 1 copy.

105 - The history of Mr Fantom, the new-fashioned philosopher, and his man William. 4 copies.

107 - The history of diligent Dick; or, truth will out, though it be hid in a well. 2 copies.

108 - Sunday Reading. The pilgrims. An allegory. 1 copy.

126 - The wife reformed. 1 copy.

178 - The divine model; or, Christian’s exemplar. To which is added, the dram-shop. 1 copy.

The Black Prince, a true story: being an account of the life and death of Naimbanna, an African King’s son. 1 copy.

Sunday Reading. The fall of Adam, our first parent; with some account of the creation of the world. 2 copies.

The gravestone; being an account of a wife who buried both her children on one day, and who, from that time, became a very devout Christian. 1 copy.

The gravestone: The lady and the pye; or, know thyself: The plum-cakes; or, the farmer and his three sons. 1 copy.

Here and there; or, this world and the next. 1 copy.

John the shopkeeper turned sailor. The fourth and last part. 1 copy. Sunday Reading. The Judgement Day; in which a true and just account is given of the manner in which the scriptures teach that we, and all mankind, are to be tried on the great day of judgement. 2 copies.

Sunday Reading. A new Christmas tract; or, the right way of rejoicing at Christmas. 4 copies.

Parley the porter, an allegory. Shewing how robbers without can never get into an house, unless there are traitors within. 6 copies.

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Thanksgiving day. An address to all persons, especially to our brave sailors, suited to the Thanksgiving Day; in which address an account is given of our three great victories obtained, through the blessing of God, over the French, the Spaniards, and the Dutch …. J Evans. 1 copy.

The Thunderstorm; or, the history of Tom Watson, the unnatural son; being a warning to all children. 3 copies.

’Tis all for the best, or the history of Mrs Simpson. 3 copies.

Miscellaneous

The shepherd of Salisbury Plain. American Tract Society. 1 copy.

Fashionable amusements. American Tract Society. 1 copy.

Lancashire collier girl. Francis & John Rivington. 1 copy.

The history of Tom White. JGF & J Rivington. Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge. 1842. 1 copy.

The shepherd of Salisbury Plain. In two parts. Francis & John Rivington. Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge. 1848. 1 copy.

The two shoemakers, in six parts. JGF & J Rivington. Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge. 1842. 1 copy.

The happy waterman. Francis & John Rivington. Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge. 1845. 1 copy.

The history of Charles Jones, the footman. Francis & John Rivington. Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge. 1845. 1 copy.

Sorrowful Sam; or, the two blacksmiths. Howard & Evans. 1 copy.

The deceitfulness of pleasure; or, some account of my Lady Blithe. John Marshall. 1 copy.

The parish nurse. John Marshall. 1 copy.


The fatal choice. John Marshall. 1 copy.

The mistaken evil. A true story. John Marshall. 1 copy.

Sunday Reading. The unfruitful fig-tree. A parable. John Marshall. 1 copy.

The distressed mother. John Marshall. 1 copy.

Elisha; or, the only two ways of subduing our enemies, either by kindness or the sword. John Marshall. 1 copy.

The wanderer. A fable. John Marshall. 1 copy.

The shepherd of Salisbury Plain. B Johnson. Philadelphia. 1 copy.

The shepherd of Salisbury Plain. American Tract Society. New York. 1 copy.

The shepherd of Salisbury Plain. Walter Austin & Co. New Haven. 1810. 1 copy.

Sorrowful Sam; or, the history of the two blacksmiths bound with A true account of a pious negro. B & J Johnson. Philadelphia. 1800. 1 copy.

The history of Tawney Rachel, the fortune teller, Black Giles’s wife. bound with The plum cakes; or, the farmer and his three sons. B & J Johnson. Philadelphia. 1800. 1 copy.

The two shoemakers, part I. Philadelphia. 1 copy.

The two shoemakers, parts II & III. B & J Johnson. Philadelphia. 1800. 1 copy.

Black Giles the poacher bound with The gin shop; or a peep into prison. B & J Johnson. Philadelphia. 1800. 1 copy.

Path to riches and happiness bound with The apprentice’s monitor, or indentures in verse and The market woman; or, honesty is the best policy. Anne Watson. Dublin. 1 copy.

Patient Joe; or, the Newcastle collier bound with The execution of Wild Robert; being a warning to all parents and Dan and Jane; or, faith and works and The gin-shop; or, a peep into prison. Howard and Evans. 1 copy.

The history of Tom White, the postillion, part 1. Hazard and Marshall. 1 copy.

The way to plenty; or, the second part of Tom White. Hazard & Marshall. 1 copy.

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