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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
| Connections | Author name Sort descending | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Textual Production | 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, /... |
| 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... |
| Publishing | Charlotte Nooth | The copy at the University of Alberta
has nine names added in manuscript to the end of a subscribers list which already includes Mary Matilda Betham
, Lady Eleanor Butler
, Harriet Bowdler
and her... |
| Publishing | Eliza Parsons | She gave her name as Mrs. Parsons on the title-page and signed the dedication with both her names. Garside, Peter et al., editors. The English Novel 1770-1829. Oxford University Press. 1: 512 |
| 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. 182-3 |
| politics | Sarah Scott | They believed that women could think and write in freedom only outside relationships with men. Although Mary Astell
's writing influenced them, they insisted that women must be involved in society and not withdraw into... |
| 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. 36-7, 71 |
| Wealth and Poverty | Anna Seward | 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. 176, 191 Norton, Rictor. Mistress of Udolpho: The Life of Ann Radcliffe. Leicester University Press. 95 |
| Textual Production | 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... |
| Textual Production | 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. 3 |
| 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. It... |
| Textual Production | 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 |
| 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... |
| 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. Editor Bowdler, Henrietta Maria, Richard Cruttwell. 215-6 |
| 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
... |
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