Finding herself short of funds for her education she wrote to the publication's editor with the support of her tutor at Newnham.
Dodds' college thesis on the bishops of Durham's boroughs gained her the Creighton memorial prize in 1909.
[1] In 1915, Madeleine Hope Dodds and her sibling, Ruth, wrote The Pilgrimage of Grace, 1536–1537, and the Exeter conspiracy, 1538, which was published by the Cambridge University Press.
Not only did she write The Pilgrimage of Grace, 1536-1537, and the Exeter Conspiracy, 1538 with her sister in 1915, she also wrote journals in her career, like "The Problem of the 'Ludus Coventriae'"[8] and "Political Prophecies in the Reign of Henry VIII".
There is a plaque to her and her elder sisters, Ruth and Sylvia, noting that they founded the Little Theatre Gateshead that was installed in 2005.