Jane Bowdler

HMB 's first work for publication was probably the editing of her late sister Jane 's Poems and Essays, by a Lady lately Deceased.

MS published at Bath, with her name, Messiah, A Poem in Two Parts, for the benefit of the BathGeneral Hospital .

In addition to Catharine Cappe 's work on Sunday schools and versions of fairy stories by Marie-Catherine d'Aulnoy , the magazine reviewed work by a whole library of didactic, pedagogical, or improving writers, reprinted as...

The Batheaston Vase was important in several literary careers, notably those of Anna Seward , Jane Bowdler , and Mary Alcock . Other winners, like Jane Johnson 's daughter Barbara , seem never to have...

Although HMB was provoked to write by William Hayley 's unpleasant Philosophical, Historical and Moral Essay on Old Maids, 1785, she gives a mixed message. This begins with an epigraph drawn from Elizabeth Hamilton

Its story (of an aristocratic husband who keeps a mistress and is cruel to his middle-class wife) is said to come from real life. Ernest, Lord Fitzhenry, marries Emmeline Benson, daughter of a wealthy London...

Jane Bowdler died young at the family home at Ashley near Bath, leaving her poems to be edited and published by her sister HMB .

Thomas Bowdler senior, father of HMB and other famous children, died a year after his eldest child, Jane .

HMB 's sister Jane , seven years her senior and the eldest of the family, was a gifted woman, a poet whose health was ruined by smallpox at the age of sixteen and measles soon...