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ID	3599
Last Name	Dodsley
First Name	Robert
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Gender	Male
Date of Birth	1704-02-13
Date of Death	1764-09-23
Place of Birth	Mansfield
Place of Death	Durham
Related Firms	Robert and James Dodsley Robert Dodsley
VIAF URI	http://viaf.org/viaf/47589
Wikipedia Entry	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Dodsley
Image URL	https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/9d/Reynolds,_Sir_Joshua_-_Robert_Dodsley_-_Google_Art_Project.jpg
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Role	Title	Date
Author	A sketch of the miseries of poverty.	1731
Author	The chronicle of the kings of England, written in the manner of the ancient Jewish historians. By Nathan Ben Saddi, a Priest of the Jews.	1744
Author	Select letters between the late Duchess of Somerset, Lady Luxborough, Mr. Whistler, Miss Dolman, Mr. R. Dodsley, to William Shenstone, Esq. and others; including a sketch of the manners, laws, &c. of the Republic of Venice, and some poetical pieces; the whole now first published from original copies by Mr. Hull. In two volumes.	1778
Author	A collection of the most esteemed farces and entertainments performed on the British stage. A new edition.	1786
Author	The Chronicle of the Kings of England, from the Norman Conquest to the Present Time. By R. Dodsley. A new edition enlarged.	1799
Author	The Chronicle of the Kings of England, from the Norman Conquest unto the Present Time. By R. Dodsley. A New Edition Enlarged.	1799
Author	The economy of human life. By Dodsley: A picture of the female character, as it ought to appear. By G. Horne, D.D. &c.	1803
Author	A Collection of Farces and Other Afterpieces, which are acted at the Theatres-Royal, Drury-Lane, Covent-Garden, and Hay-Market. Printed under the authority of the manager from the prompt book: selected by Mrs. Inchbald. In seven volumes.	1809
Author	The Modern British Drama. In five volumes.	1811
Author	The English Drama Purified: Being a Specimen of Select Plays, in which all the passages that have appeared to the editor to be objectionable in point of morality, are omitted or altered. With prefaces and notes. By James Plumptre, B.D. Fellow of Clark-Hall, Cambridge.	1812
Author	A collection of farces and other afterpieces, which are acted at the Theatres-Royal, Drury-Lane, Covent-Garden, and Hay-Market. Printed under the authority of the managers from the prompt-book: selected by Mrs. Inchbald. In seven volumes.	1815
Author	The London Stage; a collection of the most reputed tragedies, comedies, operas, melo-dramas, farces, and interludes. Accurately printed from acting copies, as performed at the Theatres Royal, and carefully collated and revised.	1824

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