Anne Dodd

Standard Name: Dodd, Anne

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Textual Production Alexander Pope
This early version had three books. The name on the colophon, Anne Dodd , is probably another fiction.
Pope, Alexander. The Poems of Alexander Pope. Editor Butt, John, Methuen; Yale University Press.
5: xvii
The book's appearance is described by Pope's biographer Maynard Mack as that of a an...
Publishing Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
Each issue of To the Imitator was priced at sixpence. One appeared through a trade publisher, James Roberts , and one through a mercury, Anne Dodd . Both these were pamphlet-producers who offered...
Publishing Eliza Haywood
EH worked on this during summer 1720. The title-page said 1721, and bore her name.
Spedding, Patrick. A Bibliography of Eliza Haywood. Pickering and Chatto.
104
Gerrard, Christine. Aaron Hill: The Muses’ Projector 1685-1750. Oxford University Press.
89
Whicher, George Frisbie. The Life and Romances of Mrs. Eliza Haywood. Columbia University Press.
189
The work is a translation, or more precisely a paraphrase, from the French of Edmé Boursault
Textual Production Eliza Haywood
The publisher, John Millan , used the false imprint of N. Dobb, probably in allusion to Anne Dodd . Haywood set her name to the third edition, 1728, which includes another of her short...

Timeline

Autumn 1728: Elizabeth Nutt and Anne Dodd each submitted...

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Autumn 1728

Elizabeth Nutt and Anne Dodd each submitted a petition from prison against their punishment for publishing a libel.

8 November 1728: The mercury Anne Dodd was sentenced to Newgate...

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8 November 1728

The mercuryAnne Dodd was sentenced to Newgate Prison for publishing a libel; she had petitioned against the sentence, as a working woman not as a figure of pathos.

17 July 1729: The all-female mercury firms of Elizabeth...

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17 July 1729

The all-female mercury firms of Elizabeth Nutt and Anne Dodd were summonsed about a libel they had published. Subordinate members of each firm testified that the mistress was not responsible, having been away ill at...

26 August 1731: The Grub-Street Journal celebrated Phillis...

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26 August 1731

The Grub-Street Journal celebrated Phillis Leveridge , a hawker who worked for Anne Dodd , for her peculiar happiness of misnaming, wresting and commenting upon almost every thing she carries.

1735: An all-female conger or group of publishers...

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1735

An all-female conger or group of publishers (including Elizabeth Nutt and Anne Dodd ) got together to finance the expensive Annotations on the Holy Bible.

Before 22 April 1739: Anne Dodd, for almost thirty years the best-known...

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Before 22 April 1739

Anne Dodd , for almost thirty years the best-known of all the Londonmercuries or trade publishers, died, leaving the business to her daughters.

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