Wellesca Pollock Allen Dyar (February 12, 1871 – 1940) was an American educator and an early adherent to Baháʼí Faith in the United States.
Her brother, George Freeman Pollock, was the founder of Skyland Resort in Virginia.
[2] Wellesca trained as a teacher, graduating from her mother's Washington Normal Kindergarten Institute in 1891.
In 1900 she began to identify as a follower of the Baháʼí Faith, and used the Persian name "Aseyeh" in that context.
[4] Wellesca Pollock made some significant money selling real estate in Washington, D.C.[5] She also did part-time work at the Smithsonian Institution, assisting entomologist and fellow Baháʼí Harrison Gray Dyar Jr.[6][7] Wellesca Pollock was at the center of a public scandal[8] when it became known that "Wilfred P. Allen", her absent husband, the father of her three sons (born 1908, 1911, and 1913), was a fiction.