James Dodsley

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.

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.

PG was paid £20 by publisher James Dodsley for her anonymous, epistolary novel Hartly House, Calcutta, published by June.

The volume included an essay on translation by EG 's husband . She had received forty guineas for this from James Dodsley on 4 March. The Dublin edition, 1788, gives her name. One more Dublin...

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).

James Dodsley paid CL £25 to complete her remuneration for translating Meditations and Penitential Prayers by the duchesse de la Vallière, who had become a royal mistress at a very early age.

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.

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...

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. Her first offer of sonnets to Dodsley in...

The publisher James Dodsley paid JW 's brother Joseph fifty pounds for two works by her: Letters Addressed to Two Young Married Ladies and Letters on Christian Life.

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...

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...

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...

FB wrote a self-critical letter to Dodsley about the reasons for Emily Montague's comparative failure.

MSC wrote to publisher James Dodsley about the anonymous appearance of her first book, the novel Letters Between Emilia and Harriet. Her letter is now lost, as is one written this year by her...