Jane Bowdler

Standard Name: Bowdler, Jane
Used Form: a Lady lately deceased

Connections

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Family and Intimate relationships Henrietta Maria Bowdler
Jane Bowdler died young at the family home at Ashley near Bath, leaving her poems to be edited and published by her sister HMB .
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
under Jane Bowdler
Family and Intimate relationships Henrietta Maria Bowdler
Thomas Bowdler senior, father of HMB and other famous children, died a year after his eldest child, Jane .
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
under Elizabeth Stuart Bowdler
Family and Intimate relationships Henrietta Maria Bowdler
HMB 's sister Jane , seven years her senior and the eldest of the family, was a gifted woman, a poet whose health was ruined by smallpox at the age of sixteen and measles soon...
Intertextuality and Influence Henrietta Maria Bowdler
Although HMB was provoked to write by William Hayley 's unpleasant Philosophical, Historical and Moral Essay on Old Maids, 1785, she gives a mixed message. This begins with an epigraph drawn from Elizabeth Hamilton
Intertextuality and Influence Caroline Scott
Its story (of an aristocratic husband who keeps a mistress and is cruel to his middle-class wife) is said to come from real life. Ernest, Lord Fitzhenry, marries Emmeline Benson, daughter of a wealthy London...
Occupation Anna Miller
The Batheaston Vase was important in several literary careers, notably those of Anna Seward , Jane Bowdler , and Mary Alcock . Other winners, like Jane Johnson 's daughter Barbara , seem never to have...
Textual Features Sarah Trimmer
In addition to Catharine Cappe 's work on Sunday schools and versions of fairy stories by Marie-Catherine d'Aulnoy , the magazine reviewed work by a whole library of didactic, pedagogical, or improving writers, reprinted as...
Textual Production Henrietta Maria Bowdler
HMB 's first work for publication was probably the editing of her late sister Jane 's Poems and Essays, by a Lady lately Deceased.
An obituary of HMB in the Gentleman's Magazine seems...
Textual Production Mary Scott
MS published at Bath, with her name, Messiah, A Poem in Two Parts, for the benefit of the BathGeneral Hospital .
The posthumous Poems and Essays of Jane Bowdler had appeared in print...

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Bowdler, Jane. Poems and Essays. Editor Bowdler, Henrietta Maria, Published for the benefit of Bath General Hospital, 1786, 2 vols.