DASH, COUNTESS

DASH, COUNTESS
   the nom de plume of the Viscountess de Saint-Mars, a French novelist, born at Poitiers; in straits for a living, took desperately to writing; treated of aristocratic life and its hollow artificialities and immoralities (1804-1872).

The Nuttall Encyclopaedia. . 1907.

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