Henrietta Maria Bowdler

01 January 1750 - 25 February 1830

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 .

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Textual Production	Elizabeth Smith	Elizabeth Smith , aged fifteen, wrote and dated a poetic fragment which her posthumous editor, Henrietta Maria (or Harriet) Bowdler , printed in her introductory account of Smith's works. Smith, Elizabeth. Fragments, in Prose and Verse. Editor Bowdler, Henrietta Maria, Richard Cruttwell. 3
Textual Production	Elizabeth Smith	Memoirs of Frederick and Margaret Klopstock . Translated from the German by the author of Fragments in Prose and Verse (Elizabeth Smith ) was posthumously published at Bath through the agency of Henrietta Maria Bowdler
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, /...
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. 176, 191 which Harriet Bowdler thought of as comparative poverty. Norton, Rictor. Mistress of Udolpho: The Life of Ann Radcliffe. Leicester University Press. 95

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