7-1120: Dobell is a surname. Notable people with the surname include Bertram Dobell (1842–1914), English bookseller, literary scholar, editor and author Charles Macpherson Dobell (1869–1954), Canadian soldier Clifford Dobell (1886–1949), British biologist Doug Dobell (1917–1987), British record store proprietor and record producer Elizabeth Mary Dobell (1828-1908), English poet Eva Dobell (1867–1963), British poet, nurse, and editor Horace Dobell (c. 1827 – 1917), English doctor and medical writer Richard Reid Dobell (1836–1902), Canadian businessman and politician Sydney Thompson Dobell (1824–1874), English poet and critic William Dobell (1899–1970), Australian artist See also [ edit ] Dobell Prize , prize for drawing in Australia Division of Dobell , an Australian electoral Division in New South Wales [REDACTED] Surname list This page lists people with
14-412: A "cheaper and more popular" edition of Thomson's The City of Dreadful Night in 1899. This was followed by a privately published collection of his own verse, Rosemary and Pansies (1901), which, after favorable reception, he reissued in expanded form in 1904. This received some praise for its satires and epigrams, and contained, as well, a dozen haikai , one of the first English experiments with
21-467: A newsvendor's shop in 1872; he went on to become the proprietor of two bookshops in Charing Cross Road , which were well respected by contemporary book collectors. In addition to continuing "the good tradition which knits writers, printers, vendors, and purchasers of books together," Arthur Quiller-Couch wrote, Dobell was "at pains to make his second-hand catalogues better reading than half
28-558: Is different from Wikidata All set index articles Bertram Dobell Bertram Dobell (9 January 1842 – 14 December 1914) was an English bookseller, literary scholar, editor, poet, essayist and publisher. Bertram Dobell was born on 9 January 1842 in Battle, East Sussex , to Edward Dobell, a tailor, and his wife Elizabeth. He received little education and started work at a young age. Dobell married Eleanor Wymer (1847–1910) on 24 July 1869; they had five children. Dobell opened
35-409: The surname Dobell . If an internal link intending to refer to a specific person led you to this page, you may wish to change that link by adding the person's given name (s) to the link. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Dobell&oldid=1037060505 " Category : Surnames Hidden categories: Articles with short description Short description
42-739: The new books printed, and they cost us nothing." Dobell formed close friendships with a number of contemporary writers, most notably the poet James Thomson , whose poems he helped publish in book form. Dobell died from liver cancer at his home in Haverstock Hill , London, on 14 December 1914, at the age of 72. As an author, Dobell was best known for his editions of the works of Thomas Traherne (whose unpublished manuscripts he had discovered), Shelley , Goldsmith , Strode and James Thomson. At first, Dobell issued his books through other publishers, but after some collaborative ventures, he began publishing under his own imprint, beginning with
49-547: The recently-imported Japanese poetic form afterward known as haiku . Dobell's other books included A Century of Sonnets (1910), and the biographies Sidelights on Charles Lamb (1903) and The Laureate of Pessimism: a Sketch of the Life of James Thomson (1910). The City of Dreadful Night Too Many Requests If you report this error to the Wikimedia System Administrators, please include
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