Author: Betty T. Bennett
ISBN: 9780801849848
"By an investigative and analytical feat of true Sherlockian proportions, Bennett cracks an elaborate conspiracy that had successfully veiled a Pandora's box of sexual scandal and literary intrigue until Bennett herself revealed it to the world."-- Los Angeles Times. In the 1820s Mary Shelley, the celebrated 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 t
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
Publish Date: 1994
Subjects: Authors, English/ 19th century/ Biography, Authors, English, Literary forgeries and mystifications/ History/ 19th century, Literary forgeries and mystifications, Male impersonators, Women and literature/ Great Britain/ History/ 19th century, Women and literature, Women authors, English, Biography & Autobiography / Literary, Literary Criticism / General, Literary Criticism / Women Authors, Literary Criticism / Semiotics & Theory
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