The Family Expositor, the Doddridge Circle and the Booksellers

Whitehouse, Tessa

doi:10.1093/library/11.3.321

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Mercy Doddridge's Memories and Job Orton's "Memoirs"1

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“…She had done this before, during the publication of Philip Doddridge's Family Expositor, by communicating with different members of his circle to ensure that they worked hard to get his unfinished six-volume work of New Testament translation, paraphrase and commentary into print. 24 In several important respects her role in the creation of the biography was even more active than it had been for The Family Expositor. In the earlier case it was impossible for her to be involved in developing the work's content.…”

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Memory, Community and Textuality in Nonconformist Life‐Writings, 1760‐1810

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2018

J Eighteenth Century Stud

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This article asks why memorial writing was so important for religious Dissenters in the eighteenth century, and what the role of women was in the production of nonconformist culture, by investigating the material circumstances of production, preservation and dissemination of life-writings. It introduces the editorial and commemorative activities of Mercy Doddridge and Jane Attwater, asks how a writer's confessional identity might find its way into the structure and content of her writing and compares processes of composition for printed texts with the compilation and preservation of manuscript records.

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Section: Mercy Doddridge's Memories and Job Orton's "Memoirs"mentioning

confidence: 99%