Dora Melegari

Dora Melegari
Born	27 June 1849 Lausanne
Died	31 July 1924 Rome
Pen name	Thomas Emery
Occupation	writer
Nationality	Switzerland

Dorette (Dora) Melegari (27 June 1849 – 31 July 1924) was a Swiss writer who wrote in both French and Italian. Three of her early works were written by a ghost writer. In time she was twice nominated for a Nobel Prize.

Melegari was born in Lausanne, her father was the diplomat Luigi Amedeo Melegari and her mother was Marie Caroline Mandrot.

In 1881 Octave Mirbeau ghost wrote the first of three novels for Melagari. Melagari then wrote her own novels, Her ghost writer eventually published books under his own name.

In 1887 she started writing for the Internationale Revue using the nom de plume of Thomas Emery. She wrote literary reviews and in time took a management role with the magazine. In 1900 she published her most well known work in Paris. This was later translated into Italian as Il sonno delle anime and published in Milan in 1903. Melagari discussed the nature of friendship between women. She citicised women and particularly those of the south for ignoring its benefits. She proposed that this might be because they consider anything that is not love to have little value. Melagari was twice nominated for the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1914 and 1923.

She died in Rome in 1924 and was buried in the Protestant Cemetery in Rome.

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