Augustus Le Plongeon

After leaving Belize for Yucatán in the late 1870s, Alice and Augustus Le Plongeon began to struggle with financial difficulties. They returned to New York City several times to seek funding, and managed to find...

Alice and Augustus Le Plongeon left Yucatán by boat to photograph and map ruins on the nearby islands.

Composed from the notes of a lecture that she gave in support of a Catholic school in Belize, this was the first article by a woman published in the society's Proceedings since its founding in...

A few months after Augustus 's death, ADLP published the first part of another epic poem, A Dream of Atlantis.

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...

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...

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 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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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.