Hope Dodds
(1885-1972)

Died aged c. 87

Madeleine Hope Dodds known as M. Hope Dodds (2 January 1885 – 13 May 1972) was an English author and historian who wrote The Pilgrimage of Grace 1536–1537, and the Exeter Conspiracy, 1538. She had three sisters and one brother, their parents were Edwin and Emily Dodds. She and two of her sisters founded the Little Theatre Gateshead.

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Dodds Sisters Hope (1885-1972), Ruth (1890-1976) & Sylvia (1892-1969) lived here. They founded the Little Theatre, Saltwell View. Ruth Dodds was made an honorary freeman of Gateshead in 1965.

Home House, at the junction of Church Road and Kell's Lane, Low Fell, Gateshead, United Kingdom where they lived