Dods, Mary Diana (pseudonym David Lyndsay) (F)

Surname: Dods
Forename(s): Mary Diana
b. 1790. d. 1830. Nationality: Scottish. VIAF.
Poet, playwright, fiction writer. Pseudonyms: David Lyndsay. Also used the name Walter Sholto Douglas, living openly as a man and the assumed husband to Isabella Robinson Douglas. Friend of Mary Shelley. See Geraldine Friedman, Pseudonymity, Passing, and Queer Biography: The Case of Mary Diana Dods, Romanticism on the Net, Issue 23, August 2001; Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Diana_Dods (16 March 2021). (AC)

Poems associated with this person

Total poems: 5
Poem title Date Periodical Roles id #
The Plague of Darkness, A Dramatic Scene from the Exodus 1821-08 Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine Poet 9393
The Vigil of St Mark. A Dramatic Tale 1821-10 Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine Poet 9446
The Mount of Olives 1821-12 Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine Poet 9593
The Ring and the Stream. A Drama 1822-01 Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine Poet 9689
The Death of Isaiah—A Fragment 1822-08 Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine Poet 9865