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 guide to the Mary Diana Dods manuscript material : 1 item, 1825, (The New York Public Library. Carl H. Pforzheimer Collection of Shelley and His Circle.)

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