The title comes from the work's refrain: Lament Her. Subscribers included the Duchesses of Queensberry
and of Marlborough
. Among various prefatory pieces, To the Reader speculates that the writer's cruel father may read...
Textual Production
Hannah More
This was not the end of the Cheap Repository Tracts. In the following month HM
's The Plum-Cakes, a broadside, was entered at Stationers' Hall
;
Demers, Patricia. The World of Hannah More. University Press of Kentucky, 1996.