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 .
Title-page of Henrietta Maria Bowdler's anonymous "Sermons on the Doctrines and Duties of Christianity", fourth edition, 1803. A contemporary has added the author's name: "Mrs Harriet Bowdler of Bath." This copy bears the ownership stamp of a theological seminary, and a librarian has repeated Bowdler's full name.

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Textual Production Mary Leadbeater
One of the poems here, printed as To I. S., represents a new friendship as some consolation for the social pleasures brutally interrupted by the rebellion (The blood-stain'd earth, the warlike bands, /...
Textual Production Charlotte Smith
It was small but handsome. Thomas Stothard did two of the illustrations. His design for sonnet 12 (Written on the Sea Shore.—October 1784—the month in which she crossed the Channel with her children...
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...
Wealth and Poverty Anna Seward
At her father's death AS was left £400 a year on which to run her large house and fair-sized household,
Ashmun, Margaret. The Singing Swan. Yale University Press; H. Milford, Oxford University Press, 1931.
176, 191
which Harriet Bowdler thought of as comparative poverty.
Norton, Rictor. Mistress of Udolpho: The Life of Ann Radcliffe. Leicester University Press, 1999.
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