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Thomas Bowdler
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Standard Name: Bowdler, Thomas,, 1754 - 1825
Connections
| Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Family and Intimate relationships | Henrietta Maria Bowdler | HMB
's elder brother, John, trained as a lawyer but won modest fame as a Church of England
writer. A memoir of him was published by one of his sons, another Thomas, in 1824. The... |
| Friends, Associates | Anna Margaretta Larpent | In 1776 the future AML
recorded meeting the Corsican patriot Paoli
and Dr Johnson
ye Great. |
| 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. qtd. in Cullinan, Mary. Susan Ferrier. Twayne, 1984. 75 |
| Author summary | Henrietta Maria Bowdler | 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... |
| Publishing | Sarah Dixon | SD
reveals her gender in her preface merely by her use of pronouns. Her motive for publishing was a dire need of money. An unnamed benefactor in her family supplied the need, but she decided... |
| 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... |
| Publishing | Harriette Wilson | |
| 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... |
| Textual Features | Muriel Jaeger | MJ
's next chapter deals with the male counterparts of the previous chapter's examples (Frederic Lamb
, but also Dugald Stewart
and Henry Brougham
), setting the Society for the Suppression of Vice
against... |
| Textual Production | Henrietta Maria Bowdler | This was chronologically well ahead of her brother Thomas
's more complete and more famous expurgated edition (ten volumes, thirty-six plays, 1818). His edition takes the text of HMB
's twenty plays from hers. Most... |
| Travel | Henrietta Maria Bowdler | In December 1802 (and no doubt on other occasions) HMB
visited her brother Thomas
at St Boniface, Isle of Wight. Piozzi, Hester Lynch. The Piozzi Letters. Editors Bloom, Edward A. and Lillian D. Bloom, University of Delaware Press; Associated University Presses, 1989–2002, 6 vols. 3: 390 |
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 verse satires on Walpole's fall from power: Mordecai Triumphant, or, the Fall of Haman prime minister of state to King Ahasuerus: an heroic poem and...
By November 1802: The Society for the Suppression of Vice was...
Building item
By November 1802
The Society for the Suppression of Vice
was founded in London and grew into the gap left by the Proclamation Society
; ironically, it was often called the Vice Society.
Porter, Roy. English Society in the Eighteenth Century. Penguin, 1982.
312
Weeks, Jeffrey. Sex, Politics and Society: The Regulation of Sexuality since 1800. Longman, 1981.
84
Mason, Michael. The Making of Victorian Sexual Attitudes. Oxford University Press, 1994.
69
Bristow, Edward. Vice and Vigilance: Purity Movements in Britain Since 1700. Gill and Macmillan, 1977.
41-2
By April 1818: Thomas Bowdler published The Family Shakespeare,...
Writing climate item
By April 1818
Thomas Bowdler
published The Family Shakespeare, in fact a further extension of a project begun by his sister Henrietta Maria Bowdler
.
Quarterly Review. J. Murray.
19 (1818): 283
Price, Leah. “The Poetics of Pedantry from Thomas Bowdler to Susan Ferrier”. Women’s Writing, Vol.
7
, No. 1, 2000, pp. 75-88. 80
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