Augustus Le Plongeon

Her remains were cremated, and Maude Blackwell spread them at sea so that they would be with those of her husband Augustus . Most of her assets were divided among her siblings, including clothing left...

The poem appeared in a handsome dress, on heavy plate paper which brings out very effectively the illustrations which reproduce parts of the striking sculptured relics of the Mayas. The frontispiece is an excellent...

Augustus Le Plongeon , who was in London to study ancient Mayan objects at the British Museum , met Alice Dixon shortly after his arrival.

Alice Dixon finally married Augustus Le Plongeon in Brooklyn, New York, after accompanying him, unmarried, on the voyage from England.

Augustus Le Plongeon died of heart disease at the age of eighty-two with ADLP at his bedside.

Augustus Le Plongeon was born twenty-five years before ADLP , on 4 May 1826, to French parents on the island of Jersey in the Channel Islands, closer to France than England though politically British...

In 1994 Martha Keltz published A Maya Trilogy, three one-act plays about the lives of ADLP and Augustus Le Plongeon . The first play, called The Thread of Ariadne, is set in Yucatán...

Shortly after their first arrival in Mérida, Yucatán, ADLP caught yellow fever. Since Augustus had apprenticed as a doctor, he patiently fulfilled the duties of nurse and physician with the most assiduous care, not...

Her husband Augustus was happy with her success. He wrote: Please do not forget that the scientific world is as much indebted to Mrs. Le Plongeon as to myself and that I decline receiving all...

Considering women who wrote collaboratively with their spouses in the nineteenth century, Claire L. Lyons has judged ADLP 's writing to be by far the most intellectually ambitious. However, when William J. McGee of...

As scholars became increasingly critical of Augustus , he remained in the background writing while Alice continued to make public appearances. When she had first begun to publish, she had taken a decision to...

Alice Dixon Le Plongeon was a writer, lecturer, photographer, and amateur archaeologist working from the 1870s. Her writings include field notes, a travel diary, a book of articles, two epic poems, several smaller poems and...

However, though she was well-known during her lifetime, her constant promotion of her husband 's work rather than her own caused her to be almost completely forgotten not long after her death. She was his...

Alice and Augustus Le Plongeon moved to New York permanently. Alice missed Yucatán, but was eager to join the fight for women's rights, and hoped that lecturing and writing to an American audience would help...

ADLP 's archaeological writings include pieces such as Dr. Le Plongeon 's Latest and Most Important Discoveries in Yucatan for Scientific American, which discusses the work she and Augustus did together in the field...