American author, born at Hamilton, MA, in April 1833. She was for several years from 1851 instructor in physical science in the Hartford, CT, high school, and afterward a governess in the family of Dr. Gamaliel Bailey, Washington, who was editor of the National Era, to which Miss Dodge became a contributor. For two years from 1865 she was one of the editors of Our Young Folks. Among her numerous works are Country Living and Country Thinking (1862); Gala-Days (1863); A New Atmosphere (1864); Skirmishes and Sketches (1865); Woman’s Wrongs: A Counter-Irritant (1868); Woman’s Worth and Worthlessness (1871); Twelve Miles from a Lemon, sketches (1874); The Insuppressible Book (1885); and English Kings in a Nutshell (1893). Her mother was Hannah Stanwood, of Hallowell, ME, a brother of whom, Jacob Stanwood, was the father of Mrs. James G. Blaine. Miss Dodge thus became intimate with the Blaine family and was appointed literary executor of Mr. Blaine. She was engaged assiduously upon the biography of the great statesman, and it was thought that her devotion to this work hastened her end, which occurred at Hamilton on the 17th of August 1896. See also Literary Criticism.
