Women’s Writing in the British Isles from the Beginnings to the Present
Henrietta Maria Bowdler
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Standard Name: Bowdler, Henrietta Maria
Birth Name: Henrietta Maria Bowdler
Nickname: Harriet
HMB
, who published mainly in the early nineteenth century, was an editor, conduct-book writer, theological writer, poet, and novelist. She was also the originator of the project for rendering Shakespeare
inoffensive to delicate ears, which is more generally connected with the name of her brother Thomas
.
This edition was published by Colburn
. EOB
's excellent scholarly introduction dwells on recent literary achievements of women. She does not explicitly identify the British ones she refers to, but they are clearly (as...
Textual Features
Mary Ann Browne
This volume displays the melodramatic tendency of MAB
's early romantic writing, but also her serious commitment to the idea of a women's tradition in literature. The title poem features more than one Byronic hero...
Occupation
Lady Eleanor Butler
In addition to their better-known activities, the women became antiquarians with a particular interest in women's writing. They copied early texts by women, like Ann Fanshawe
's still unpublished Memoirs. Henrietta Maria Bowdler
sent...
Friends, Associates
Lady Eleanor Butler
Among their many visitors (apart from the local gentry, with whom they duly established links), close friends included Anna Seward
, Henrietta Maria Bowdler
(who wrote mock-flirtatiously of LEB
as her veillard [sic] or old...
Textual Production
Lady Eleanor Butler
LEB
and Sarah Ponsonby
wrote some of their voluminous correspondence jointly. Writing was one of their major pleasures; they selected paper with loving care, and kept an equally careful tally of replies received and of...
Publishing
Jane Cave
The publisher was J. Sadler
. JC
dedicated this first book to its subscribers. Their names fill fifty-two closely-printed columns, and are drawn from an area which is arguably centred on Winchester but which reaches...
Publishing
Elizabeth Elstob
Its full title is An English-Saxon Homily on the Birthday of St. Gregory
, Anciently used in the English-Saxon Church. Giving an Account of the Conversion of the English from Paganism to Christianity. It...
Intertextuality and Influence
Susan Ferrier
The Inheritance opens with what sounds like an allusion to Jane Austen
: It is a truth, universally acknowledged, that there is no passion so deeply rooted in human nature as that of pride.
Cullinan, Mary. Susan Ferrier. Twayne.
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Textual Features
Elizabeth Griffith
To modern readers EG
's moral-hunting may seem beside the point, but like Elizabeth Montagu
(whom she cites admiringly as having given her courage for her own attempt) and theBowdlers
, she was interpreting...
Dedications
Laetitia-Matilda Hawkins
She dedicated it to Henrietta Maria Bowdler
, less in honour of Bowdler herself than in honour of her friendship with and literary executorship of the scholar Elizabeth Smith
; she compares their relationship to...
Friends, Associates
Margaret Holford
Holford seems to have cared about making influential friends, and succeeded in doing so although she lived in the provinces. She established a correspondence with Sir Walter Scott
, and although their relationship got off...
Textual Features
Margaret Holford
The title-page quotes (with a mis-spelling) the traditional French song, Joli mois de Mai, / Quand reviendras tu? The melancholy tone is maintained in, for instance, To the Last Leaf on a Plane Tree...
The book bears in various details the influence of Jane Austen
, though its overall project of pious didacticism is at odds with Austen's approach. The title-page quotes Rousseau
on the topic of the sensitive...
Friends, Associates
Anna Margaretta Larpent
In 1776 the future AML
recorded meeting the Corsican patriot Paoli
and Dr Johnson
ye Great.
Feminist Companion Archive.
After her marriage her own and her husband's work brought her into contact with the cultured elite of London...
Timeline
Around late February 1742: A woman named Margaret Ogle published, with...
Women writers item
Around late February 1742
A woman named Margaret Ogle
published, with her name, two versesatires on Walpole's fall from power: Mordecai Triumphant, or, the Fall of Haman prime minister of state to King Ahasuerus: an heroic poem and The...
By November 1802: The Society for the Suppression of Vice was...