TY - JOUR
AU - Meyers, Terry L.
AB - 2014 NOTES AND QUERIES 507 the Bishop of London, Beilby Porteus’ advice attempt to recruit his aid make such a possibil- about the need for the Cheap Repository to re- ity tenable. cruit radical booksellers: ‘There is a central set of EDMUND DOWNEY University of Nottingham booksellers that are to the full as mischievous as your hawkers, pedlars and match women, in doi:10.1093/notesj/gju144 The Author (2014). Published by Oxford University Press. vending the vilest penny pamphlets to the poor All rights reserved. For Permissions, people [.. .] if therefore we gain any of these mis- please email: journals.permissions@oup.com creants to our side we shall have the most respect- able set of booksellers, to dispose of our works’. At first glance Spence and More have little in common. However, closer inspection of THE GENESIS OF THOMAS MOORE’S their work shows just how similar their politi- ‘TO THE FIRE-FLY’ cised form of popular chap-book style litera- FOR over a century, the citizens of Williams- ture was. Both authors sought to influence burg, Virginia and others have believed labouring class readers by appropriating ple- that Thomas Moore wrote ‘To the Fire-Fly’ beian literary culture to further their wildly di- in Williamsburg when 
TI - The Genesis of Thomas Moores To the Fire-Fly
JO - Notes and Queries
DO - 10.1093/notesj/gju158
DA - 2014-12-20
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/oxford-university-press/the-genesis-of-thomas-moores-to-the-fire-fly-wH6q1CzEzL
SP - 507
EP - 508
VL - 61
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