Dods, Mary Diana

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Mary Diana Dods, pseudonym David Lyndsay, British writer. For a time she lived among Paris's elite Anglo-French society as a man, taking the name Walter Sholto Douglas. As Douglas, Dods had a wife and child, and her close friend, writer Mary Shelley, helped her conceal the truth behind her gender identity.

From the description of Mary Diana Dods manuascript material : 1 item, 1825 (New York Public Library). WorldCat record id: 174260244

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