Elizabeth Cotton Bowdler

Standard Name: Bowdler, Elizabeth Cotton
Used Form: Elizabeth Stuart Bowdler
Used Form: Elizabeth Stuart Cotton

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Education Elizabeth Smith
At three years old ES loved books and at four she could read extremely well.
Smith, Elizabeth. Fragments, in Prose and Verse. Editor Bowdler, Henrietta Maria, Richard Cruttwell.
215-6
The move to Suffolk brought the Smiths a governess who was only sixteen but whose abilities exceeded her...
Family and Intimate relationships Henrietta Maria Bowdler
Elizabeth Stuart Bowdler , mother of HMB and the other writing Bowdlers, died at Bath.
Gentleman’s Magazine. Various publishers.
67 (1797):1: 447
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
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Family and Intimate relationships Henrietta Maria Bowdler
HMB 's mother, a baronet's heiress and an intellectual, was born Elizabeth Stuart Cotton in about 1718. Four of her children grew up to be writers. She was an acquaintance of Elizabeth Montagu ,
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
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Friends, Associates Elizabeth Smith
Henrietta Maria Bowdler (known as Harriet) met the Smiths in summer 1789, when Elizabeth was twelve, and formed a long-lasting friendship with both her and her mother. Elizabeth met another close friend, Mary Hunt ...
Publishing Jane Cave
The publisher was J. Sadler . JC dedicated this first book to its subscribers. Their names fill fifty-two closely-printed columns, and are drawn from an area which is arguably centred on Winchester but which reaches...
Publishing Mary Deverell
Her full title was Miscellanies in Prose and Verse, mostly written in the Epistolary Style, chiefly upon Moral Subjects, And particularly calculated for the Improvement of Younger Minds. It was published in two volumes...
Publishing Elizabeth Hands
The advertisement for the book in print, like the pre-notification, was carried by Jopson's Coventry Mercury. The volume was dedicated to the dramatist Bertie Greatheed . It was issued in two forms: ordinary copies...
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...
Wealth and Poverty Henrietta Maria Bowdler
Elizabeth Stuart Bowdler left her daughter Henrietta Maria her sole executor and residuary legatee. To Harriet fell, therefore, the distribution of legacies: two hundred pounds for herself, thirty for each of her siblings, a year's...
Wealth and Poverty Elizabeth Smith
This bankruptcy was a financial disaster for the Smith family. Elizabeth was left a small legacy by Elizabeth Cotton Bowdler , who died on 10 May 1797. Mrs Bowdler, herself a remarkable scholar, perceived Elizabeth's...

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