Life
She married Robert Wraight in 1940 (they divorced in 1963). She earned the Froebel Teachers Diploma in 1958 and worked as a teacher at Dulwich College Preparatory School (1961–1967; 1975–1983) and at the William Tyndale Junior School in Islington, London, (1969–1974). She played a significant role at the start of the educational scandal at the William Tyndale, which culminated in a formal public enquiry in 1975.
Her interest in Marlowe began in 1955 when the American writer Calvin Hoffman, who popularized the Marlovian theory, published his book The man who was Shakespeare. She joined the newly-formed Marlowe Society, and began a drama branch to revive the rarely performed plays of Marlowe and his contemporaries. She served variously as the Society's secretary, editor of its newsletter, Vice-Chair and Chair. In 1965, as "A. D. Wraight", she published an illustrated biography: In Search of Christopher Marlowe (in collaboration with the American photographer, Virginia Stern).
Dolly Walker-Wraight's research into the Marlovian theory centred around an interpretation of Shakespeare's sonnets in the light of it, and in 1994 her first book openly espousing the theory was published.
She died on 15 February 2002, aged 81.
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