James Dodsley

Standard Name: Dodsley, James

Connections

Connections Sort descending	Author name	Excerpt
Publishing	Jane Warton	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. Feminist Companion Archive.
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...
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. Fletcher, Loraine. Charlotte Smith: A Critical Biography. Macmillan, 1998. 46-7 Her first offer of sonnets to Dodsley in...
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	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...
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 la Vallière, who had become a royal mistress at a very early age. 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
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 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.

, The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2001, pp. 153-64.

155

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 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.

508

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.

134

Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder, 1908–2024, 22 vols. plus supplements.

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