Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
under Jane Bowdler
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Family and Intimate relationships | Henrietta Maria 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
. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. under Jane Bowdler |
Family and Intimate relationships | Henrietta Maria Bowdler | Thomas Bowdler senior, father of HMB
and other famous children, died a year after his eldest child, Jane
. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. under Elizabeth Stuart Bowdler |
Family and Intimate relationships | Henrietta Maria Bowdler | 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... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Henrietta Maria Bowdler | 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 |
Intertextuality and Influence | Caroline Scott | 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... |
Occupation | Anna Miller | 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... |
Textual Features | Sarah Trimmer | 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... |
Textual Production | Henrietta Maria Bowdler | |
Textual Production | Mary Scott | MS
published at Bath, with her name, Messiah, A Poem in Two Parts, for the benefit of the BathGeneral Hospital
. The posthumous Poems and Essays of Jane Bowdler
had appeared in print... |
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