Dolf Wyllarde | |
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 Portrait of Dolf Wyllarde, circa 1902 | |
| Born | Dorothy Margarette Selby Lowndes 3 April 1871 |
| Died | 10 May 1950 (aged 79) |
| Pen name | Dolf Wyllarde |
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| Alma mater | King's College London |
| Period | 1897–1939 |
| Genre | Fiction |
Dorothy Margarette Selby Lowndes, writing as Dolf Wyllarde (3 April 1871 - 10 May 1950)[1] was a British journalist and a writer of verse and fiction.[2][3] From 1897 to 1939, she was known to publish in excess of 30 books, including novels, stories and children's literature. Numerous reviews of her work mistakenly referred to her as a male due to misunderstanding of her chosen name, with some believing it to be a pen name.
She was described by one newspaper as being "one of the pioneers in the latest phase of English fiction" and as "a new power in the fiction world, a power to be reckoned with". Little is known about her private life and she died a spinster in May 1950.
- ^ Dolf Wyllarde at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database
- ^ Kemp, Sandra (1997). "Dolf Wyllarde". Edwardian fiction : an Oxford companion. Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780198117605.
- ^ Bloom, C. (29 September 2008). "Dolf Wyllarde (Dorothy Margarette Selby Lowndes)". Bestsellers: Popular Fiction since 1900. Springer. p. 190. ISBN 978-0-230-58387-0. Archived from the original on 22 August 2024. Retrieved 5 January 2021.