Henrietta Maria Bowdler
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Standard Name: Bowdler, Henrietta Maria
Birth Name: Henrietta Maria Bowdler
Nickname: Harriet
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, which is more generally connected with the name of her brother Thomas
.
Connections
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Cultural formation | Elizabeth Smith | She was confirmed in the Church ofEngland
in December 1791, and a letter written her by Henrietta Maria Bowdler
on that occasion shows how seriously this was taken both as a spiritual experience and as... |
Dedications | Laetitia-Matilda Hawkins | She dedicated it to Henrietta Maria Bowdler
, less in honour of Bowdler herself than in honour of her friendship with and literary executorship of the scholar Elizabeth Smith
; she compares their relationship to... |
Education | Anne Lister | As an adult she was frequently engaged in serious, self-improving study. Her reading included ancient classics (Demosthenes
, Sophocles
, Juvenal
) and modern writings on conduct (Henrietta Maria Bowdler
's Essay on... |
Friends, Associates | Margaret Holford | Holford seems to have cared about making influential friends, and succeeded in doing so although she lived in the provinces. She established a correspondence with Sir Walter Scott
, and although their relationship got off... |
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
... |
Friends, Associates | Anna Margaretta Larpent | In 1776 the future AML
recorded meeting the Corsican patriot Paoli
and Dr Johnson
ye Great. Feminist Companion Archive. |
Friends, Associates | Mary Tighe | Before she left London, MT
met there her fellow Irish poet Tom Moore
. He subsequently visited her in Dublin and complimented her in verse. She exchanged poems with Barbarina Wilmot (later Lady Dacre)
... |
Friends, Associates | Lady Eleanor Butler | Among their many visitors (apart from the local gentry, with whom they duly established links), close friends included Anna Seward
, Henrietta Maria Bowdler
(who wrote mock-flirtatiously of LEB
as her veillard [sic] or old... |
Friends, Associates | Ann Radcliffe | Henrietta Maria Bowdler
, who must already have known AR
socially, wrote to tell her that Elizabeth Carter
very much wished to be introduced; Radcliffe declined. Norton, Rictor. Mistress of Udolpho: The Life of Ann Radcliffe. Leicester University Press, 1999. 182-3 |
Friends, Associates | Anna Seward | Nine years later her meeting with the provincial literary hostess Anne, Lady Miller
, marked the beginning of a wide and deep acquaintance with the literary world beyond Lichfield. Ashmun, Margaret. The Singing Swan. Yale University Press; H. Milford, Oxford University Press, 1931. 36-7, 71 |
Instructor | Elizabeth Smith | At three years old ES
loved books and at four she could read extremely well. Smith, Elizabeth. Fragments, in Prose and Verse. Bowdler, Henrietta MariaEditor , Richard Cruttwell, 1809. 215-6 |
Intertextuality and Influence | Mary Ann Kelty | The book bears in various details the influence of Jane Austen
, though its overall project of pious didacticism is at odds with Austen's approach. The title-page quotes Rousseau
on the topic of the sensitive... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Elizabeth Smith | Among undated poems Bowdler prints another imitation of Ossian
and a translation from the German of Friedrich von Matthisson
. Smith, Elizabeth. Fragments, in Prose and Verse. Bowdler, Henrietta MariaEditor , Richard Cruttwell, 1809. 119-125, 128 |
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. Cullinan, Mary. Susan Ferrier. Twayne, 1984. 75 |
Occupation | Lady Eleanor Butler | In addition to their better-known activities, the women became antiquarians with a particular interest in women's writing. They copied early texts by women, like Ann Fanshawe
's still unpublished Memoirs. Henrietta Maria Bowdler
sent... |
Timeline
Around late February 1742
A woman named Margaret Ogle
published, with her name, two versesatires on Walpole's fall from power: Mordecai Triumphant, or, the Fall of Haman prime minister of state to King Ahasuerus: an heroic poem and The...
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.
By April 1818
Thomas Bowdler
published The Family Shakespeare, in fact a further extension of a project begun by his sister Henrietta Maria Bowdler
.