author
George Dodd
1808–1881
Best known for The Food of London, this industrious Victorian writer turned statistics, industry, and everyday life into lively reading. His work helped explain how 19th-century Britain made, moved, and consumed the things people relied on every day.
2 Audiobooks
Rudimentary Treatise on the Construction of Locks
by A. C. Hobbs, George Dodd
About the author
Born on September 18, 1808, George Dodd was an English journalist and writer whose career ranged across publishing, industry, and popular education. He is closely associated with the publisher Charles Knight, for whom he prepared articles and reference material, especially on practical and industrial subjects.
Dodd built a reputation as a hardworking, clear-minded writer who could make complex facts and figures readable. His books often explored the systems behind everyday life and modern industry, and his best-known work, The Food of London (1856), examined how food reached and sustained a vast city.
He died in London on January 21, 1881. Today he is remembered as one of those energetic 19th-century authors who helped bring journalism, statistics, and social observation together for a broad reading public.