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Thomas Bowdler (11 July 1754 – 24 February 1825) 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. The two sought a version they saw as more appropriate than the original for 19th-century women and children. Bowdler also published works reflecting an interested knowledge of continental Europe. His last work was an expurgation of Edward Gibbon's Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, published posthumously in 1826 under the supervision of his nephew and biographer, Thomas Bowdler the Younger. From his name derives the eponym verb bowdlerise or bowdlerize, meaning to expurgate or to censor something through the omission of elements deemed unsuited to children in literature and films and on television. (From Wikipedia) More about Thomas Bowdler:
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1 additional book about Thomas Bowdler in the extended shelves:Books by Thomas Bowdler: Additional books by Thomas Bowdler in the extended shelves:![[X-Info]](https://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/infouc.gif) Bowdler, Thomas, 1754-1825: Bowdler's family Shakspeare illustrated (Richard Griffin and Company, 1861), also by William Shakespeare and Francis Jeffrey Jeffrey (page images at HathiTrust)- Bowdler, Thomas, 1754-1825: Family Shakespeare (Printed for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green, 1825), also by William Shakespeare (page images at HathiTrust)
- Bowdler, Thomas, 1754-1825: Family Shakespeare (Longman, Brown, Green, & Longmans, ..., 1847), also by William Shakespeare, B. Jamieson, and Smyth & Co (page images at HathiTrust)
- Bowdler, Thomas, 1754-1825: Family Shakespeare (Printed for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown ..., 1823), also by William Shakespeare (page images at HathiTrust)
- Bowdler, Thomas, 1754-1825: The family Shakespeare ... (Longman, Green, Longman, & Roberts, 1861), also by William Shakespeare (page images at HathiTrust)
- Bowdler, Thomas, 1754-1825: The family Shakespeare : in one volume, in which nothing is added to the original text, but those words and expressions are omitted which cannot with propriety be read aloud in a family (J.W. Moore, 1849), also by William Shakespeare (page images at HathiTrust)
- Bowdler, Thomas, 1754-1825: The family Shakespeare ... in which nothing is added to the original text, but those words and expressions are omitted which cannot with propriety be read aloud in a family ... (Printed for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1823), also by William Shakespeare (page images at HathiTrust)
- Bowdler, Thomas, 1754-1825: The family Shakspeare, in one volume : in which nothing is added to the original text, but those words and expressions are omitted which cannot with propriety be read in a family (Longman, Green, Longman, Roberts, & Green, 1863), also by William Shakespeare (page images at HathiTrust)
- Bowdler, Thomas, 1754-1825: The family Shakspeare, in one volume : in which nothing is added to the original text, but those words and expressions are omitted which cannot with propriety be read in a family ([publisher not identified], 1850), also by William Shakespeare (page images at HathiTrust)
- Bowdler, Thomas, 1754-1825: The family Shakspeare, in ten volumes; in which nothing is added to the original text; but those words and expressions are omitted which cannot with propriety be read aloud in a family. (Printed for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1818), also by William Shakespeare (page images at HathiTrust)
- Bowdler, Thomas, 1754-1825: The family Shakspeare : in which nothing is added to the original text, but those words and expressions are omitted which cannot with propriety be read in a family (Longmans, Green, 1872), also by William Shakespeare (page images at HathiTrust)
- Bowdler, Thomas, 1754-1825: The family Shakspeare ... in which nothing is added to the original text; but those words and expressions are omitted which cannot with propriety be read aloud in a family ... (Printed for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, Brown, 1825), also by William Shakespeare (page images at HathiTrust)
- Bowdler, Thomas, 1754-1825: The family Shakspeare : in which nothing is added to the original text, but those words and expressions are omitted which cannot with propriety be read in a family (Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme and Brown, 1818), also by William Shakespeare (page images at HathiTrust)
- Bowdler, Thomas, 1754-1825: The family Shakspeare : in which nothing is added to the original text, but those words and expressions are omitted which cannot with propriety be read aloud in a family (Printed for Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1853), also by William Shakespeare (page images at HathiTrust)
- Bowdler, Thomas, 1754-1825: History of the decline and fall of the Roman empire for the use of families and young persons : reprinted from the original text, with the careful omission of all passagers of an irreligious tendency ([publisher not identified], 1826), also by Edward Gibbon (page images at HathiTrust)
- Bowdler, Thomas, 1754-1825: A letter to the editor of The British critic; occasioned by the censure pronounced in that work on "Johnson,Pope,Bowdler,Warburton,Theobald,Steevens,Reed,Malone,et hoc genus omne, all the herd of these and Meibomiuses of the British school." (Vide British critic, April 1822, p.372.) (Printed for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme and Brown, 1823) (page images at HathiTrust)
- Bowdler, Thomas, 1754-1825: Letter to the editor of the British critic, occasioned by the censure pronounced in that work on "Johnson, Pope, Bowdler, Warburton, Theobald, Steevens, Reed, Malone. (London, 1823) (page images at HathiTrust)
- Bowdler, Thomas, 1754-1825: Letters written in Holland, in the months of September and October, 1787. To which is added a collection of letters, and other papers, relating to the journey of the Princess of Orange, on the 28th of June, 1787. (Printed for the benefit of a charitable institution at Bath, and sold by J. Robson and W. Clarke, J. Debrett and C. Dilly, 1788) (page images at HathiTrust)
- Bowdler, Thomas, 1754-1825: A short view of the life and character of Lieutenant-General Villettes, late lieutenant-governor and commander of the forces in Jamaica. To which are added letters written during a journey from Calais to Geneva, and St. Bernard in the year 1814. (Printed by R. Cruttwell, and sold by J. Robinson and J. Hatchard, London, 1815), also by Princess of France Elisabeth (page images at HathiTrust)
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