Author: Dods, Mary Diana
Biography:
DODS, Mary Diana (1790-1829?: Mary Diana Dods: A Gentleman and a Scholar)
pseudonym David Lyndsay
Dods earned her living writing for magazines, in particular Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine, using the pseudonym David Lyndsay. She adopted male dress and moved to France where she played the role of husband to Isabella Robinson and called herself Walter Sholto Douglas (possibly leading to the rumours that she was the illegitimate child of George Douglas, 15th Earl of Morton). She wrote the anonymously published Tales of the Wild and the Wonderful (London and Edinburgh, 1825). She died in France in 1829 or 1830. (Betty T. Bennett, Mary Diana Dods: A Gentleman and a Scholar [1991])
Books written (1):
Edinburgh/ London: William Blackwood/ T. Cadell, 1822