In the 1820s Mary Shelley, the author of "Frankenstein", had among her many acquaintances two intriguing friends. One, the author David Lyndsay had published admired books, poems and short stories. The other, Walter Sholto Douglas, husband of Mary Shelley's dear friend Isabella Robinson Douglas, was an aspiring diplomat. In 1830 traces of both men suddenly and completely disappeared from Mary Shelley's life, but not from historical evidence. Betty T. Bennett came across both men as she conducted research in the Shelley correspondence. Through years of investigation, Bennett uncovered the improbable truth: David Lyndsay and Walter Sholto Douglas were the same person and, despite historical and legal evidence to the contrary, that person was a woman - Mary Diana Dods, illegitimate daughter of a Scottish aristocrat.
- ISBN10 0801849845
- ISBN13 9780801849848
- Publish Date 1 October 1994
- Publish Status Out of Stock
- Out of Print 9 January 2001
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Johns Hopkins University Press
- Edition New edition
- Format Paperback
- Pages 304
- Language English