Mrs. Anne Dodd I (ca. 1685 – 1739; fl. 1710/11 – 1739)

Identifiers

Occupations

  • Bookseller
  • Pamphlet-seller
  • Mercury

Names

  • Mrs. Anne Dodd I
  • Mrs. Dodd
  • Anne Barnes

Anne Dodd I, bookseller and pamphlet seller, Westminster, 1710?; 1711–1739, at the Peacock without Temple Bar; near Essex Street, in the Strand. Wife of and successor to stationer Nathaniel Dodd, whom she had married 18 March 1708.

This is to give Notice to all Booksellers and others, That at the Peacock without Temple-Bar, they may be furnish'd with all sorts of Pamphlets and News Papers by Ann Dodd.—Evening Post 315, 8–10 November 1711

Nathaniel died October 1723 and Anne I carried on the business until her own death in April 1739. She was buried on the 22nd with her husband at Enfield in Middlesex. The business was carried on successfully by daughter Anne Dodd II until 1756.

Note that the 1728 Dunciad listed here among her publications may have been attributed to her without her consent, or her role may have been as trade publisher. In either case her name on the imprint would have concealed the name of the actual publisher and possibly also appeared there to satirize the trade in which she was involved. For an account of Dodd's trade, see "What Does it Mean to Publish? A Messy Accounting of Anne Dodd," by Kate Ozment, The Women's Print History Project 5 August 2022.

A Dictionary of the Printers and Booksellers who were at Work in England, Scotland and Ireland from 1668 to 1725, by Henry Plomer (1922)

DODD (A.), bookseller in London, Peacock without Temple Bar, 1714–31. In 1714 in partnership with others he [sic.] published The Ladies Tales, and in 1719 a novel, Charon, or. The Ferry Boat. [Esdaile, pp. 254, 185.] Mr. F. G. Hilton Price mentions this bookseller as living in the Strand in 1723 [Midd. & Herts. N. & Q. II. 93.] He [sic.] was still publishing in 1731. [Esdaile, p. 191.]

Notes & Queries "London Booksellers Series" (1931–2)

DODD, ANNE. A well-known publisher and bookseller of the day. She was trading at Curll's old shop, the Peacock without Temple Bar, as early as 1714. In 1742 she was still at the same address, but by 1749 she had shifted to St. Clement's Church, though she still retained the same sign. The Benjamin Dodd, noticed below, may have been her son.

—Frederick T. Wood, 15 August 1931

 

DODD, A. I have a record of an imprint of this bookseller at the Peacock without Temple Bar as early as 1700. On the other hand, there is an advertisement of Mrs. Dodd at the same address, in the Public Advertiser as late as 2 Feb. 1756, announcing a new monthly publication, The Universal Visiter. So whether A. Dodd, Anne Dodd, and Mrs. Dodd are all the same person, as DR. WOOD implies, I am unable to say.

—Ambrose Heal, 5 September 1931

A Dictionary of the Printers and Booksellers who were at work in England, Scotland and Ireland from 1726 to 1775, by Henry Plomer et al. (1932)

DOD or DODD (ANNE) (Mrs.), book and pamphlet-seller, London (1) Without Temple Bar; (2) Peacock, near Temple Bar, 1728; (3) near Essex Street in the Strand, 1726-43. Dealer in News-sheets and pamphlets of all kinds. Her name appears in an advertisement of The General History of the West Indies, as printed for A. Dodd and four others. [London Journal, Feb. 26th 1726.] She was frequently proceeded against by the authorities. In one of her petitions she said she had been left a widow with a large young family, and was just able to feed them by selling papers. Whenever a public character was satirized or condemned by the press, the unfortunate newsvendor, who was probably quite ignorant of the contents of the journals, was fined and imprisoned as if he or she had been the author of the offending article. In connexion with the London Evening Post, Mrs. Dod was said to have taken thirty quires of this paper weekly, from John Purser, printer (q.v.). [S. P. Dom. Geo. II, Bundle 23 (82); Bundle 48 (13, 14).] Mrs. Dod's name is constantly found in the imprints of eighteenth-century pamphlets.

The Dunciad, ed. James Sutherland (1963)

DODD, Anne (d. circa 1750?). Wife of Nathaniel Dodd, Stationer. In her husband's life time she kept a pamphlet shop at the Peacock without Temple Bar, and dealt largely in newspapers, which she distributed to retailers. She was in trouble in Aug. 1714 for distributing the Post Boy (P.R.O. S.P. 35/1/28). ... She carried on her husband's business for many years, publishing trivial poems, tales, and miscellaneous pieces, either separately or (more frequently) in collaboration with other publishers, such as Curll. In the weeks following the publication of the Dunciad she was selling many of the attacks upon Pope, including Curll's Key. It is perhaps significant that from 1706 to 1709 Curll had been publishing from the Peacock in the Strand. Mrs. Dodd was in trouble in 1727 (P.R.O. S.P.44/80); and again in 1731 for publishing the Craftsman (Calendar of Treasury Books and Papers, 1731–4, p. 51). She lived to publish The Last Will and Testament of Alexander Pope, of Twickenham, Esq., 1744.