Village politics
Subtitle: with, The shepherd of Salisbury plain
By: Hannah More.
Contributors: More, Hannah, 1745-1833.
Series: Revolution and romanticism, 1789-1834
Publisher: Woodstock Books
Published: 1995
Place of publication: Oxford [England]; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 24
Subjects: Saunders, David, 1717-1796.; Shepherds -- England -- Wiltshire -- Biography.; Christian biography -- England -- Wiltshire.; Great Britain -- Politics and government -- 1789-1820 -- Pamphlets.
Other titles: Village politics ; with, The shepherd of Salisbury plain; Shepherd of Salisbury plain.
Description: The enormous working-class sale of Paine's Rights of man Part I was met on the right both by censorship and by the promotion of popular literature dedicated to political stability. Village politics urges the working man: 'study to be quiet, work with your hands, and mind your own business'. The Cheap repository tracts, which began to appear two years later, had similar aims but in the framework of religious renewal.

The shepherd of Salisbury Plain, celebrating piety, poverty and simplicity, was one of the most popular; first published in 1795, it is here reproduced in a more legible text of the 1820s.
Notes: First work originally published: 3rd ed. London : F. and C. Rivintgon, 1793 ; 2nd work originally published: Smithfield : Cheap Repository, [182-?]