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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 Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| 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... |
| 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 |
| Publishing | Jane Cave | |
| Publishing | Elizabeth Elstob | Its full title is An English-Saxon Homily on the Birthday of St. Gregory
, Anciently used in the English-Saxon Church. Giving an Account of the Conversion of the English from Paganism to Christianity. It... |
| 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 Features | Elizabeth Ogilvy Benger | |
| Textual Features | 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. 34 |
| Textual Features | 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... |
| Textual Features | 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... |
| Textual Features | 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... |
| Textual Features | Muriel Jaeger | MJ
's next chapter deals with the male counterparts of the previous chapter's examples (Frederic Lamb
, but also Dugald Stewart
and Henry Brougham
), setting the Society for the Suppression of Vice
against... |
| Textual Features | Elizabeth Smith | 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 | 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... |
| 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... |
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