Autograph letter signed from Henrietta Maria Bowdler, Bath, to Mrs. Baker, Bristol [manuscript], [ca. 1790] December 20.

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Autograph letter signed from Henrietta Maria Bowdler, Bath, to Mrs. Baker, Bristol [manuscript], [ca. 1790] December 20.

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Baker, Mrs., fl. ca. 1790

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Bowdler, H. M. (Henrietta Maria), Mrs., 1754-1830

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Henrietta Maria [Harriet] Bowdler, English writer and literary editor. She is best known for her Family Shakespeare, a collection of Shakespeare's plays with scenes and references cut out that she found morally offensive. Her brother Thomas was credited with The Family Shakespeare for many years, and it was their surname that inspired the coinage of the verb "bowdlerize.". From the guide to the H. M. Bowdler manuscript material : 1 item, 1815, (The New York Public Library. Carl H. Pf...