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)