William Dodd

01 January 1729 - 01 January 1777

Standard Name: Dodd, William,, 1729 - 1777

Connections

Connections Sort descending	Author name	Excerpt
Publishing	Mary Bosanquet Fletcher	Mary Bosanquet (later Fletcher) published at LeedsAn Aunt's Advice to a Niece, a conduct book which incorporates letters she had written to the condemned forger Dr William Dodd . OCLC WorldCat. 1992–1998, http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.
Textual Production	Sarah Fielding	This work, no longer attributed to SF 's single authorship, was printed, as several of hers were, by Samuel Richardson . But letters written about it by Lady Barbara Montagu (friend and partner of the...
Textual Production	Mary Bosanquet Fletcher	Mary Bosanquet (later Fletcher) wrote almost weekly to the ex-fashionable preacher Dr William Dodd (in prison for forgery) until he was hanged, out of concern for his soul. John Wesley visited Dodd in prison, and...

Timeline

1754

The Rev. William Dodd published his novel The Sisters; or, The History of Lucy and Caroline Sanson, Entrusted to a False Friend, a morally oversimplified example of the bad-sister-damned/good-sister-saved plot.

Campbell, Ann M. “Sister Plots: The Double in English Courtship Novels”. American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies (ASECS) Conference, Milwaukee, WI, 27 Mar. 1999.

27 June 1777

The clergyman William Dodd was executed for forgery despite the efforts of many distinguished people to win him a pardon.

Villette, John. A Genuine Account of the Behaviour and Dying Words of William Dodd, L.L.D. Printed for the author, 1777, http://BLC.

title-page

Johnson, Samuel. Sermons. Editors Hagstrum, Jean and James Gray, The Yale Edition of the Works of Samuel Johnson, Yale University Press, 1978.

300, 301n1

Texts

Dodd, William, 1729 - 1777. An Account of the Rise, Progress, and Present State of the Magdalen Hospital, for the Reception of Penitent Prostitutes. 5th ed., W. Faden, 1776.