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Dodsworth Manuscripts
Dodsworth may refer to: * ''Dodsworth'' (novel), a 1929 novel by Sinclair Lewis * ''Dodsworth'' (play), a 1934 play adapted from the novel * ''Dodsworth'' (film), a 1936 film adapted from the novel * ''Dodsworth,'' a ''Producer's Showcase'' 1956 teleplay based on the novel * Anna Dodsworth (c. 1740–1801), British romantic poet * Roger Dodsworth (1585–1654), English antiquary * Matthew Dodsworth (c.1544–1631), English judge * Geoffrey Dodsworth Geoffrey Hugh Dodsworth (7 June 1928 – 29 March 2018) was a merchant banker and British Conservative Party politician. Biography Early life Geoffrey Hugh Dodsworth was born on 7 June 1928. He was educated at St. Peter's School, York. Busin ... (born 1928), British politician * Any of the Smith-Dodsworth Baronets {{disambig ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dodsworth (novel)
''Dodsworth'' is a satirical novel by American writer Sinclair Lewis, first published by Harcourt Brace & Company on March 14, 1929. Its subject, the differences between US and European intellect, manners, and morals, is one that frequently appears in the works of Henry James. Plot summary The novel is set in the period between late 1925 and late 1927. Samuel ('Sam') Dodsworth is an ambitious and innovative automobile designer, who builds his fortunes in fictional Zenith, Winnemac. In addition to his success in the business world, he had also succeeded as a young man in winning the hand of Frances 'Fran' Voelker, a beautiful young socialite. While the novel provides the courtship as a backstory, the real story begins upon his retirement. Retiring at the age of fifty as a result of his selling of his successful automobile company (The Revelation Motor Company) to a far larger competitor, he sets out to do what he had always wanted to experience: a leisurely trip to Europe with h ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dodsworth (play)
''Dodsworth'' is a three-act play by Sidney Howard based on the 1929 novel by Sinclair Lewis. Through the title character, it examines the differences between American and European intellect, manners, and morals. Synopsis Middle-aged Samuel Dodsworth is the head of Revelation Motor Company, an automobile manufacturing firm. His wife Fran, a shallow and vain woman obsessed with the notion of growing old, convinces her spouse Sam to sell his interest in the company and take her to Europe. Before long, Fran begins to view herself as a sophisticated world traveler and Sam as boring and unimaginative. Searching for excitement in her life, she begins spending time with other men and eventually informs Sam that she's leaving him for a member of royalty. While in Italy, Sam reunites with Edith Cortright, a widow he first met while en route to Europe via ship, and the two fall in love. Without warning, he breaks off their relationship, then realizes just how much he cares for her. Produc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dodsworth (film)
''Dodsworth'' is a 1936 American drama film directed by William Wyler, and starring Walter Huston, Ruth Chatterton, Paul Lukas, Mary Astor and David Niven. Sidney Howard based the screenplay on his 1934 stage adaptation of the 1929 novel of the same name by Sinclair Lewis. Huston reprised his stage role. The center of the film is a study of a marriage in crisis. Recently retired auto magnate Samuel Dodsworth and his narcissistic wife Fran, while on a grand European tour, discover that they want very different things out of life, straining their marriage. The film was critically praised and nominated for seven Academy Awards, including Best Picture, Best Actor for Huston, and Best Director for Wyler (the first of his record twelve nominations in that category), and won for Best Art Direction. In 1990, ''Dodsworth'' was included in the annual selection of 25 motion pictures added to the National Film Registry of the Library of Congress. being deemed "culturally, historically, or ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Producer's Showcase
''Producers' Showcase'' is an American anthology television series that was telecast live during the 1950s in compatible color by NBC. With top talent, the 90-minute episodes, covering a wide variety of genres, aired under the title every fourth Monday at 8 pm ET for three seasons, beginning October 18, 1954. The final episode, the last of 37, was broadcast May 27, 1957. Showcase Productions, Inc., packaged and produced the series, which received seven Emmy Awards, including the 1956 award for Best Dramatic Series. Production In 1953, stage producer Leland Hayward had the idea to create a 90-minute TV series, a series of color spectaculars to be broadcast monthly on NBC. Hayward was represented by Saul Jaffe of the Madison Avenue law firm Jaffe & Jaffe; Henry Jaffe, the firm's senior partner, was national counsel for the American Federation of Television and Radio Artists, an organization he helped found. When illness forced Hayward to withdraw from the project, NBC partnered ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anna Dodsworth
Anna Dodsworth (née Barrell; c. 1740–1801) was a British Romantic poet who has enjoyed increased attention in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Life Anna Barrell's mother died when she was young and she was educated by her father, Francis Barrell. She began writing when she was seventeen, when she wrote an elegy to her brother. Shortly thereafter she married Frank Dodsworth, vicar, of Dodington Kent. The marriage lasted forty-three years, until her death in 1801. There is no record of any children. Dodsworth produced "both occasional poems for her friends and family and wry social commentary in rhymed metrical verse." Her only published collection, ''Fugitive Pieces'', was edited and printed posthumously by her husband "in a very limited number" for private distribution. According to the unsigned preface, THE writer of the following PIECES was desirous that they should be printed by subscription after her decease, and that the profits thence arising should be give ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Roger Dodsworth
Roger Dodsworth (1585–1654) was an English antiquary. Life He was born at Newton Grange, Oswaldkirk, near Helmsley, Yorkshire, in the house of his maternal grandfather, Ralph Sandwith. He devoted himself early to antiquarian research, in which he was greatly assisted by the fact that his father, Matthew Dodsworth, was registrar of York Minster, and could give him access to the records preserved there. He married Holcroft Hesketh, the widow of Laurence Rawsthorne of Hutton Grange, Penwortham, Lancashire where he subsequently resided until his death in August 1654. Works At various times in his life he was able to study the records in the library of Sir Robert Cotton, in Skipton Castle and in the Tower of London. He collected a vast store of materials for a history of Yorkshire, a ''Monasticon Anglicanum'', and an English baronage. The second of these was published with considerable additions by Sir William Dugdale (2 vols., 1655 and 1661). The manuscripts were left to Thomas ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Matthew Dodsworth
Matthew Dodsworth (c.1544 – 1631) was, sometime before 1593, appointed as Judge of the Admiralty Court in England's Northern Counties and was later Registrar and Chancellor for Tobias Matthew, Archbishop of York. He was also the father of the noted Yorkshire antiquary, Roger Dodsworth. Matthew was the second son of Simon Dodsworth of Settrington, East Riding of Yorkshire (now in North Yorkshire), by his spouse Agnes née Harrison. He entered St John's College, Cambridge and matriculated pensioner at Easter 1565. He gained his LL.B from Trinity Hall, Cambridge in 1573. He married September 15, 1578, in Oswaldkirk, Yorkshire, Eleanor, daughter of Ralph Sandwith, Esq., of Newton Grange, Oswaldkirk, by his spouse Mary née Segrave. They had a total of 15 children, baptised in Oswaldkirk, Yorkshire, St Michael le Belfry, York, and Holy Trinity Church, Goodramgate, York between October 1579 and August 1603. Roger Dodsworth, baptised April 24, 1585 in St Oswald, Oswaldkirk, was thei ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Geoffrey Dodsworth
Geoffrey Hugh Dodsworth (7 June 1928 – 29 March 2018) was a merchant banker and British Conservative Party politician. Biography Early life Geoffrey Hugh Dodsworth was born on 7 June 1928. He was educated at St. Peter's School, York. Business career He began his working life in 1945 as an articled clerk and subsequently a Chartered Accountant at Barron & Barron in York. After two years' service in the army, from 4 July 1946 to 26 August 1948, he returned to Barron & Barron, where he worked on a number of major business activities for large estates in Yorkshire and London until 1963. Whilst at Barron & Barron, Geoffrey also became Justice of the Peace for York in 1960 - at just 32, he was one of the youngest ever magistrates for the city. He set up a group of companies in the export and import trade in 1963 and travelled extensively in Ottawa, New York and Washington, developing these businesses. In 1970, he joined William Brandt’s Sons & Co. Ltd. He became Managing Dire ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
