[3] Her father was a progressive religious jurist and allowed Dolatabadi to begin her education in Persian and Arabic in Tehran.

[8] When the Second Eastern Women's Congress was arranged in Tehran in 1932, Shams Pahlavi served as its president and Dowlatabadi as its secretary.

[3] Together with other like-minded women, she expressed her opposition to the agreement by boycotting imported goods and going to coffee shops and encouraging them not to use foreign sugar.

[10] During the late 1920s and 1930s there were rumours that the government planned to introduce a policy of compulsory unveiling (the reform, known as Kashf-e hijab, was promulgated in 1936).

[7] In 1926 she attended the International Alliance of Women's Conference in Paris and on her return wore European clothes and refused to wear a veil.

[13] When the Shah banned the veil in 1936, Dowlatabadi was an active supporter of the reform, and engaged in the new women's committee Kanun-e Banuvan (Ladies Society) formed by the government.

[3] She was buried next to her brother in the Imamzadeh Ismail Cemetery in Zargandeh, however during the 1978 Revolution her tomb was damaged and her remains desecrated.