Thomas Bowdler
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Gender | Male |
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Death | 199 years ago |
Date of birth | July 11,1754 |
Zodiac sign | Cancer |
Born | Bath |
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Died | Wales |
United Kingdom | |
Date of died | February 24,1825 |
Current partner | Elizabeth Farquharson |
Parents | Elizabeth Stuart Bowdler |
Edited works | The Family Shakespeare |
Notabl work | The Family Shakspeare |
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ID | 3993757 |
Thomas Bowdler Life story
Thomas Bowdler, LRCP, FRS was an English physician known for publishing The Family Shakespeare, an expurgated edition of William Shakespeare's plays edited by his sister Henrietta Maria Bowdler. They sought a version they saw as more appropriate than the original for 19th-century women and children.