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'''Joseph Marshall Stoddart''' (August 10, 1845 — February 25, 1921), was an American business man, Editor of ''[[Lippincott's Magazine]]'' from 1886 to 1894 and later of the ''New Science Review''.
The son of another Joseph Marshall Stoddart, by his marriage to Eliza Fahnestock, Stoddart was born in 1845 in [[Philadelphia]], [[Pennsylvania]].
He was a friend of [[Walt Whitman]], and [[William Sharp (writer)|William Sharp]] wrote for his magazine.<ref>William F. Halloran, ''The Life and Letters of William Sharp and "Fiona Macleod". Volume 1: 1855-1894'' (2018), [http://bit.ly/2PyyDwl p. 412]</ref>
A memorial inscription at the [[Langham Hotel, London]], commemorates a meeting there on 30 August 1889 between Stoddart, [[Oscar Wilde]], and [[Arthur Conan Doyle]], when Stoddart commissioned them to write stories for ''Lippincott's''. Doyle wrote ''[[The Sign of Four]]'', which Stoddart published in February 1890, while Wilde wrote ''[[The Picture of Dorian Gray]]'', published in the magazine in July 1890.<ref>Nick Utechin, "A Golden Day" (Sherlock Holmes Society of London, 2010)</ref>
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[[Category:1845 births]]
[[Category:1921 deaths]]
The son of another Joseph Marshall Stoddart, by his marriage to Eliza Fahnestock, Stoddart was born in 1845 in [[Philadelphia]], [[Pennsylvania]].
He was a friend of [[Walt Whitman]], and [[William Sharp (writer)|William Sharp]] wrote for his magazine.<ref>William F. Halloran, ''The Life and Letters of William Sharp and "Fiona Macleod". Volume 1: 1855-1894'' (2018), [http://bit.ly/2PyyDwl p. 412]</ref>
A memorial inscription at the [[Langham Hotel, London]], commemorates a meeting there on 30 August 1889 between Stoddart, [[Oscar Wilde]], and [[Arthur Conan Doyle]], when Stoddart commissioned them to write stories for ''Lippincott's''. Doyle wrote ''[[The Sign of Four]]'', which Stoddart published in February 1890, while Wilde wrote ''[[The Picture of Dorian Gray]]'', published in the magazine in July 1890.<ref>Nick Utechin, "A Golden Day" (Sherlock Holmes Society of London, 2010)</ref>
==Notes==
[[Category:1845 births]]
[[Category:1921 deaths]]
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