Sister Dido (formerly Sister M. Floradora, A. R. G.), was a poet named after Saint Floradora. She was an instructor of English at Saint Sandra's College in Shoat, Iowa, and the author of "Lament for Saint Floradora" - which she admitted was written in the style of noted English poet, Alexander Pope (Saint Fidgeta and Other Parodies, 78).
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As far as the religious order abbreviation of Mary Floradora is concerned, arg is German for bad but that doesn’t mean much (bad Mary?)[1].
Dido most likely refers to the founder and first Queen of Carthage (in modern-day Tunisia). She is best known from the account given by the Roman poet Virgil in his Aeneid. The name Dido, used mostly by Latin writers, seems to be a Phoenician form meaning "wanderer". She was also the subject of a short play by Christopher Marlowe[2].