Fletcher, Loraine. Charlotte Smith: A Critical Biography. Macmillan, 1998.
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James Dodsley
Standard Name: Dodsley, James
Connections
| Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Publishing | Charlotte Smith | The earliest extant poems by CS
are sonnets written at Lys Farm in Hampshire, after the death of her eldest surviving son in May 1777. |
| Publishing | Phebe Gibbes | PG
was paid £20 by publisher James Dodsley
for her anonymous, epistolary novel Hartly House, Calcutta, published by June. Dodsley, Robert. The Correspondence of Robert Dodsley 1733-1764. Editor Tierney, James E., Cambridge University Press, 1988. 561 Wollstonecraft, Mary. The Works of Mary Wollstonecraft. Editors Todd, Janet and Marilyn Butler, Pickering, 1989, 7 vols. 7: 111 |
| Publishing | Elizabeth Griffith | |
| Publishing | Jemima Kindersley | JK
received £25 from James Dodsley
for her recently published translation of An Essay on Women, from the French of Antoine Leonard Thomas
(dating from 1772). Dodsley, Robert. The Correspondence of Robert Dodsley 1733-1764. Editor Tierney, James E., Cambridge University Press, 1988. 562 |
| Publishing | Charlotte Lennox | James Dodsley
paid CL
£25 to complete her remuneration for translating Meditations and Penitential Prayers by the duchesse de Dodsley, Robert. The Correspondence of Robert Dodsley 1733-1764. Editor Tierney, James E., Cambridge University Press, 1988. 562 Carlile, Susan. Charlotte Lennox. An Independent Mind. University of Toronto Press, 2018. 247-8 |
| Publishing | Charlotte Lennox | James Dodsley
paid CL
twenty guineas for half the rights to The History of Eliza: keeping the other half as an investment was a new move for her. Dodsley, Robert. The Correspondence of Robert Dodsley 1733-1764. Editor Tierney, James E., Cambridge University Press, 1988. 562 |
| Publishing | Charlotte Lennox | CL
had probably begun this play immediately after the appearance of her novel Henrietta, 1759, which it reworks. Indeed, the play bore the same title as the novel when it was seen in manuscript... |
| Publishing | Frances Brooke | The publisher James Dodsley
paid FB
100 guineas for her first original novel, the epistolary, sentimental The History of Lady Julia Mandeville, published this same year. Dodsley, Robert. The Correspondence of Robert Dodsley 1733-1764. Editor Tierney, James E., Cambridge University Press, 1988. 561 |
| Publishing | Maria Susanna Cooper | Samuel Cooper
, husband of MSC
, received twenty-four pounds and fifteen shillings from publisher James Dodsley
in payment for his wife's second anonymous epistolary novel, The School for Wives. In a Series of Letters. Dodsley, Robert. The Correspondence of Robert Dodsley 1733-1764. Editor Tierney, James E., Cambridge University Press, 1988. 561 |
| Publishing | Jane Warton | |
| Publishing | Jane Warton | Though it used to be said that JW
was addressing two ex-pupils in print, she dedicated Letters Addressed to Two Young Married Ladies to two nieces, Joseph's daughter and daughter-in-law. She mentions that she wrote... |
| Publishing | Jane Warton | Joseph Warton
reported in January that Dodsley
was grown surly peevish & avaricious to a degree—He swears he'll publish no more Novels—However, I have left the book [i.e. manuscript] with Him, & he is to... |
| Publishing | Jane Warton | Studying French in 1782, JW
may have been intending to earn money by translation. Even before Peggy and Patty; or, The Sisters of Ashdale appeared, however, Joseph Warton was hinting that Dodsley
might refuse anything... |
| Reception | Frances Brooke | FB
wrote a self-critical letter to Dodsley
about the reasons for Emily Montague's comparative failure. McMullen, Lorraine. An Odd Attempt in a Woman: The Literary Life of Frances Brooke. University of British Columbia Press, 1983. 113, 230n4 |
| Textual Production | Samuel Johnson | In 1748 Johnson contributed The Vision of Theodore, a prose allegory of life as the ascent of a steep and difficult mountain, to James Dodsley
's pedagogical work The Preceptor. This shows him... |
Timeline
1735: Robert Dodsley, a man from the lower classes...
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1735
Robert Dodsley
, a man from the lower classes who had worked as a footman, opened his publisher's shop in Pall Mall, London.
Tierney, James E. “Advertisements for Books in London Newspapers, 1760-1785”. Studies in Eighteenth-Century Culture, edited by Timothy Erwin and Ourida Mostefai, Vol.
30
, The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2001, pp. 153-64. 155
By April 1774: Lord Chesterfield's Letters to his Son Philip...
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By April 1774
Lord Chesterfield
's Letters to his Son Philip Stanhope were posthumously published by his daughter-in-law Eugenia
; her omission of all material relating to herself gave rise to the story that he had not known...
19 February 1797: Publisher James Dodsley (much younger brother...
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19 February 1797
Publisher James Dodsley
(much younger brother of Robert
) died worth over £60,000; Charles Dilly
, who died ten years later, left about the same.
Dodsley, Robert. The Correspondence of Robert Dodsley 1733-1764. Editor Tierney, James E., Cambridge University Press, 1988.
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Suarez, Michael F. “The Business of Literature: The Book Trade in England from Milton to Blake”. A Companion to Literature from Milton to Blake, edited by David Womersley, Blackwell, 2000, pp. 131-47.
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Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder, 1908–2024, 22 vols. plus supplements.
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