Mary Diana Dods
Mary Diana Dods (1790–1830), also known as David Lyndsay and Walter Sholto Douglas, was a Scottish writer.
Dods produced books, short stories and other publications under the name David Lyndsay. She lived under the male identity of the diplomat and scholar Walter Sholto Douglas, spouse of Isabella Robinson Douglas, and was a friend of Mary Shelley.
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References
- Ewan, Elizabeth L.; Innes, Sue. The Biographical Dictionary of Scottish Women (hardcover).
- Bennett, Betty T. (1994). Mary Diana Dods, a Gentleman and a Scholar. Johns Hopkins University Press.
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