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Madeleine Hope Dodds
1885–1972
An English historian with a strong feel for drama and place, she is best remembered for co-writing a landmark study of the Pilgrimage of Grace and for helping to found the Little Theatre Gateshead. Her work brought Tudor rebellion and northern English history vividly to life.
2 Audiobooks
The Pilgrimage of Grace, 1536-1537, and the Exeter Conspiracy, 1538, Volume 2 (of 2)
by Madeleine Hope Dodds, Ruth Dodds
The Pilgrimage of Grace, 1536-1537, and the Exeter Conspiracy, 1538, Volume 1 (of 2)
by Madeleine Hope Dodds, Ruth Dodds
About the author
Born in Gateshead on 2 January 1885, Madeleine Hope Dodds wrote as M. Hope Dodds and became known for her work on English history, especially the Tudor period. She studied at Newnham College, Cambridge, and later built her reputation as a historian and author.
She is best known for The Pilgrimage of Grace 1536–1537, and the Exeter Conspiracy, 1538, written with her sister Ruth Dodds and published by Cambridge University Press in 1915. The book remained important enough to be reissued many years later, which says a lot about its lasting value for readers interested in rebellion, religion, and power under Henry VIII.
Dodds was also closely tied to the cultural life of her home region. Along with two of her sisters, she helped found the Little Theatre Gateshead, showing that her interests reached beyond scholarship into local artistic life. She died on 13 May 1972.