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Henrietta Maria Bowdler
Henrietta Maria Bowdler (1750–1830), commonly called Mrs. Harriet Bowdler, was an author and expurgator.
==Life and works==
Bowdler was born in Conington, Huntingdonshire, the daughter of Thomas and Elizabeth Stuart Bowdler, and sister of John Bowdler the elder and Thomas Bowdler the elder. Her sister Jane was the author of an anonymous, posthumously published series of religious ''Poems and Essays'', (2 vols., Bath, 1786), which passed through a large number of editions. Harriet's own ''Sermons on the Doctrines and Duties of Christianity'' appeared anonymously, and passed through nearly fifty editions. Beilby Porteus, bishop of London, believed them to be from the pen of a clergyman, and is said to have offered their author, through the publishers, a living in his diocese.
Harriet Bowdler is also thought to have done most of the editing of the first expurgated edition of Shakespeare's works, ''The Family Shakspeare'' (1807).〔ODNB: M. Clare Loughlin-Chow, "Bowdler, Henrietta Maria (1750–1830)" (Retrieved 15 March 2014, pay-walled. )〕 She removed anything which seemed irreverent or immoral, deleting about 10 per cent of the original text. The work was published under the name of her brother, Thomas Bowdler, after whom this type of treatment came to be known as bowdlerisation.〔.〕
In 1810 Bowdler edited ''Fragments in Prose and Verse by the late Miss Elizabeth Smith'', which was very popular in religious circles. A novel by Bowdler entitled ''Pen Tamar, or the History of an Old Maid'', was issued shortly after her death. Bowdler died at Bath on 25 February 1830.〔ODNB...〕
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