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Women’s Writing in the British Isles from the Beginnings to the Present
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Sir William Schwenck Gilbert
Sir William Schwenck Gilbert
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Gilbert, Sir William Schwenck
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Sir W. S. Gilbert
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Henrietta Maria Bowdler
Notable among users of the verb
to bowdlerize
, deriving from the work of Harriet and Thomas, was
W. S. Gilbert
in the Gilbert and Sullivan light opera
Princess Ida
, 1884, which spoofs the...
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