Cheap Repository Tracts

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Cheap Repository Tracts is a series of late 18th-century moral and religious pamphlets by Hannah More, aimed at educating and reforming the British poor through accessible, inexpensive literature.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf moral pamphlet series
religious pamphlet series
tract series
associatedGroup Clapham Sect
associatedMovement Evangelicalism
associatedPerson Hannah More
Henry Thornton
author Hannah More
countryOfOrigin Great Britain
distributionMethod booksellers
chapmen
hawkers
educationalFocus basic Christian doctrine
practical morality
social discipline
form short tract
genre didactic literature
evangelical literature
moral literature
religious literature
historicalContext post-French Revolution Britain
influenced 19th-century tract societies
Religious Tract Society
intendedAudience British poor
working classes in Britain
language English
literaryForm ballad
dialogue
prose narrative
medium pamphlet
notableWorkInSeries The Shepherd of Salisbury Plain
The Sunday School
The Two Wealthy Farmers
placeOfPublication London, England
surface form: London
priceCharacteristic cheap
inexpensive
printingMethod mass printing
publicationPeriod late 18th century
publisher Cheap Repository Tracts self-linksurface differs
surface form: Cheap Repository
purpose counteraction of radical and revolutionary ideas
moral reform of the poor
promotion of evangelical Anglican values
religious education of the poor
startTime 1795
theme charity
industriousness
obedience to social order
piety
temperance

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Hannah More notableWork Cheap Repository Tracts
Cheap Repository Tracts publisher Cheap Repository Tracts self-linksurface differs
this entity surface form: Cheap Repository
Sacred Dramas relatedWork Cheap Repository Tracts