Women’s Writing in the British Isles from the Beginnings to the Present
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
.
At her father's death AS
was left £400 a year on which to run her large house and fair-sized household,
Ashmun, Margaret. The Singing Swan. Yale University Press; H. Milford, Oxford University Press.
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which Harriet Bowdler
thought of as comparative poverty.
Norton, Rictor. Mistress of Udolpho: The Life of Ann Radcliffe. Leicester University Press.
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Elizabeth Smith
Elizabeth Smith
, aged fifteen, wrote and dated a poetic fragment which her posthumous editor, Henrietta Maria (or Harriet) Bowdler
, printed in her introductory account of Smith's works.
Smith, Elizabeth. Fragments, in Prose and Verse. Editor Bowdler, Henrietta Maria, Richard Cruttwell.
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Elizabeth Smith
Memoirs of Frederick
and Margaret Klopstock
. Translated from the German by the author of Fragments in Prose and Verse (Elizabeth Smith
) was posthumously published at Bath through the agency of Henrietta Maria Bowdler
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Mary Leadbeater
One of the poems here, printed as To I. S., represents a new friendship as some consolation for the social pleasures brutally interrupted by the rebellion (The blood-stain'd earth, the warlike bands, /...
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Lady Eleanor Butler
LEB
and Sarah Ponsonby
wrote some of their voluminous correspondence jointly. Writing was one of their major pleasures; they selected paper with loving care, and kept an equally careful tally of replies received and of...
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Charlotte Smith
It was small but handsome. Thomas Stothard
did two of the illustrations. His design for sonnet 12 (Written on the Sea Shore.—October 1784—the month in which she crossed the Channel with her children...
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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...
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Margaret Holford
The title-page quotes (with a mis-spelling) the traditional French song, Joli mois de Mai, / Quand reviendras tu? The melancholy tone is maintained in, for instance, To the Last Leaf on a Plane Tree...
The oddly-structured Fragments interleaves letters, poems, and meditations by ES
with narrative and commentary by Henrietta Maria Bowdler
and letters from other people.
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Elizabeth Ogilvy Benger
This edition was published by Colburn
. EOB
's excellent scholarly introduction dwells on recent literary achievements of women. She does not explicitly identify the British ones she refers to, but they are clearly (as...
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Mary Ann Browne
This volume displays the melodramatic tendency of MAB
's early romantic writing, but also her serious commitment to the idea of a women's tradition in literature. The title poem features more than one Byronic hero...
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Susanna Watts
SW
takes steps to prevent the cause of slavery entirely dominating her work, which, she announces, it will be devoted to the cause of suffering animals as well as to that of suffering men.
Watts, Susanna. The Humming Bird. I. Cockshaw.
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Publishing
Elizabeth Smith
Fragments in Prose and Verse by a young lady, lately deceased [Elizabeth Smith
] was published at Bath, collected and edited after Smith's death by Henrietta Maria Bowdler
, and including translations.
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 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...
