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Madeleine Hope Dodds
1885–1972
A careful English historian with a strong feel for Tudor rebellion, she is best remembered for major studies of the Pilgrimage of Grace and the Exeter Conspiracy. Her work also grew out of a lively family and cultural life in Gateshead, where she helped found the Little Theatre.
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
Madeleine Hope Dodds, usually published as M. Hope Dodds, was an English author and historian born on 2 January 1885 and died on 13 May 1972. She is chiefly known for her research on sixteenth-century England, especially The Pilgrimage of Grace 1536–1537 and The Exeter Conspiracy, 1538.
She came from a Gateshead family with strong literary and local historical interests, and was educated at Newnham College, Cambridge at a time when women still faced barriers in university life. Alongside her scholarly work, she and two of her sisters were involved in local cultural life and helped found the Little Theatre Gateshead.
Dodds is remembered as a serious, patient historian whose books helped bring complex Tudor political and religious unrest into clear narrative form for later readers. Her writing remains of interest to anyone drawn to English history, especially the drama of rebellion, reform, and power under Henry VIII.