Dodd and Smith launched the store with a slogan taken from an Emily Dickinson poem, "There Is No Frigate Like a Book.
[2] The Hampshire Bookshop served the Northampton community and Smith College as bookstore and publisher and issued over 40 titles, local natural histories, keepsakes and pamphlets.
In addition, it brought to Northampton over 100 writers of national and international repute during its operations including Dorothy Canfield Fisher, Robert Frost, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Christopher Morley, Vita Sackville-West, Carl Sandburg, Hugh Walpole and William Butler Yeats.
[4] Dodd retired with honors as president and manager of Hampshire Bookshop in 1951, but served as Chairman of the Board there from 1951-1957.
Dodd was a member of the Executive Board of American Booksellers Association for 25 years, where she was the first woman officer.
[1] Dodd wrote a series of articles about Northampton local authors called "The Book Lover's Trail of New England.