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
.
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.
34
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)
...
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
The move to Suffolk brought the Smiths a governess who was only sixteen but whose abilities exceeded her...
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
...
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. Editor Bowdler, Henrietta Maria, Richard Cruttwell.
The oddly-structured Fragments interleaves letters, poems, and meditations by ES
with narrative and commentary by Henrietta Maria Bowdler
and letters from other people.
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...
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
She was on terms...
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
which Harriet Bowdler
thought of as comparative poverty.
Norton, Rictor. Mistress of Udolpho: The Life of Ann Radcliffe. Leicester University Press.
95
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
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
Timeline
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...
