mea culpa!
there are more and more reports that it was indeed Harriet who wrote the The Family Shakespeare, and other later volumes of expurgation and paraphrase literture. but the volumes were published under her brothers name, as it was unseemly that a women should be able to understand exactly what was offensive and why.. (it was the same expurgation text that were still being used in NYC highschools in the late sixties--one english teacher pointed this out, and suggested we go to the library and get the uncensor text, as we might enjoy it more...)
and mea culpa about the time.. i often forget that the primness, and associated hyper correctness I associate with victoria started before her time..
what would i do with out you sweetie! you kindly keep me on the straight and narrow, when in excitment, i loose contol.
