Jane Bowdler

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...

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...

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...

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...

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 .