Robert Dodsley

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Standard Name: Dodsley, Robert

Connections

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Textual Production Samuel Johnson
It was printed by Edward Cave and published by Robert Dodsley .
Textual Production Charlotte Lennox
Lennox made the adaptation at Garrick 's suggestion, following an unsuccessful one by Robert Dodsley decades earlier.
Carlile, Susan. Charlotte Lennox. An Independent Mind. University of Toronto Press.
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An edition followed on 27 November. Lady Bute (Lady Mary Wortley Montagu 's daughter) had politely...
Textual Production Judith Cowper Madan
The next edition of Dodsley 's Collection, 1758, added a poem on spleen which it attributed to JCM . But since no manuscript is known the attribution remains unlikely.
Textual Production Mary Barber
A Song by Laetitia Pilkington (which made its first appearance in the final edition of Robert Dodsley 's Collection of Poems in 1758 ascribed to Jabez Earle ) was later often mistakenly attributed to MB .
Suarez, Michael F., and Robert Dodsley, editors. “Who’s Who in Robert Dodsley’s <span data-tei-ns-tag="tei_title" data-tei-title-lvl=‘m’>Collection of Poems by Several Hands</span&gt”;. A Collection of Poems by Several Hands, Routledge/Thoemmes, pp. 120-6.
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Textual Production Elizabeth Carter
Catherine Talbot suggested to EC that she might offer Robert Dodsley some poems, anonymously, for inclusion in the forthcoming fourth volume of his very popular Collection of Poems.
Carter, Elizabeth, and Catherine Talbot. A Series of Letters between Mrs. Elizabeth Carter and Miss Catherine Talbot from the year 1741 to 1770. Editor Pennington, Montagu, F. C. and J. Rivington.
2: 200-1
Textual Production Mary Whateley Darwall
Original Poems on Several Occasions, the first book by Mary Whateley (later Darwall) was published with her birth name by Robert Dodsley .
Messenger, Ann. Woman and Poet in the Eighteenth Century: The Life of Mary Whateley Darwall (1738-1825). AMS Press.
38
Textual Production Sarah Fielding
The Cry, an extraordinary experimental novel written in collaboration between SF and Jane Collier , was completed.
Literary historians have differed in attributing The Cry, some to both authors and some to Fielding...
Textual Production Frances Seymour, Countess of Hertford
The final, 6-volume edition of Robert Dodsley 's Collection of Poems by Several Hands appeared, including a poem by FSCH which was falsely ascribed to Lady Mary Wortley Montagu , according to the latter.
Grundy, Isobel. “The Politics of Female Authorship: Lady Mary Wortley Montagu’s Reaction to the Printing of Her Poems”. The Book Collector, Vol.
1
, pp. 19-37.
35-6
Publishing Sarah Scott
It was published anonymously. The French original was current in England at this time, since the Duchess of Somerset (patron and poet, formerly Lady Hertford) read and enjoyed it in the year before Scott's translation...
Publishing Frances Sheridan
Publisher Robert Dodsley rejected FS 's romance Eugenia and Adelaide, which had been submitted to him through the good offices of Samuel Richardson .
Sheridan, Frances. “Introduction”. Memoirs of Miss Sidney Bidulph, edited by Jean Coates Cleary et al., World’s Classics, Oxford University Press.
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Publishing Jane Collier
The case for JC 's part-authorship with Sarah Fielding in The Cry (finished by 19 November 1753, published on 2 March 1754)
Fielding, Henry, and Sarah Fielding. The Correspondence of Henry and Sarah Fielding. Editors Battestin, Martin C. and Clive T. Probyn, Clarendon Press.
xx, 129n2
has rested chiefly on internal evidence: the work's experimental, generically undefinable...
Occupation Thomas Chatterton
He was apprenticed as a legal scrivener or copyist and began, using a hoard of ancient manuscripts which had been in his father's possession, to write poems and fake their physical manifestation, attributing them to...
Literary responses Mary Collyer
This was not to the Critical's taste. It had already this year declared its dislike of German poetry, and slammed Mary Scott 's Messiah.
Critical Review. W. Simpkin and R. Marshall.
16 (1763): 393-4
Now it called Mr Collyer's translation...
Intertextuality and Influence Susanna Watts
In fact the Chinese connection was non-existent; SW was versifying and adapting Robert Dodsley 's immensely popular The Oeconomy of Human Life, and bringing out its already-existent orientalism. Her Introduction exemplifies the tone of...
Family and Intimate relationships Elizabeth Heyrick
Her mother, born Elizabeth Cartwright , was a remarkable woman. She became engaged to please her family, but her fiancé died. After this she visited London and stayed with the publisher Robert Dodsley . While...

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.

14 January 1744: Mark Akenside published a lengthy, influential,...

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14 January 1744

Mark Akenside published a lengthy, influential, philosophic poem in blank verse entitled The Pleasures of Imagination: the faculty which, he argues, the artist uses to apprehend and to imitate the wonders of God's creation.

18 March 1748: Robert Dodsley first offered for sale his...

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18 March 1748

Robert Dodsley first offered for sale his influential Collection of Poems by Several Hands.

By November 1750: Robert Dodsley issued his successful work...

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By November 1750

Robert Dodsley issued his successful work of homespun philosophy, The Oeconomy of Human Life, whose title-page announced it as translated from an Indian manuscript.

1763-4: Francis Fawkes and William Woty published...

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1763-4

Francis Fawkes and William Woty published a successor to Dodsley 's famous poetryanthology: The Poetical Calendar. Containing a collection of scarce and valuable pieces of poetry.

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.

Texts

Dodsley, Robert, editor. A Collection of Poems by Several Hands. R. Dodsley, 1758.
Dodsley, Robert. The Correspondence of Robert Dodsley 1733-1764. Editor Tierney, James E., Cambridge University Press, 1988.
Suarez, Michael F., and Robert Dodsley, editors. “The Formation, Transmission, and Reception of Robert Dodsley’s <span data-tei-ns-tag="tei_title" data-tei-title-lvl=‘m’>Collection of Poems by Several Hands</span&gt”;. A Collection of Poems by Several Hands, Routledge/Thoemmes, 1997, pp. 1-118.
Suarez, Michael F., and Robert Dodsley, editors. “Who’s Who in Robert Dodsley’s <span data-tei-ns-tag="tei_title" data-tei-title-lvl=‘m’>Collection of Poems by Several Hands</span&gt”;. A Collection of Poems by Several Hands, Routledge/Thoemmes, 1997, pp. 120-6.