Augustus Le Plongeon
died of heart disease at the age of eighty-two with ADLP at his bedside.
Desmond, Lawrence Gustave, and Phyllis Messenger. A Dream of Maya: Augustus and Alice Le Plongeon in Nineteenth Century Yucatan. University of New Mexico.
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Textual Production
Alice Dixon Le Plongeon
A few months after Augustus
's death, ADLP
published the first part of another epic poem, A Dream of Atlantis.
Desmond, Lawrence Gustave. Yucatan Through Her Eyes: Alice Dixon Le Plongeon, Writer and Expeditionary Photographer. University of New Mexico.
315, 323
Author summary
Alice Dixon Le Plongeon
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...
Family and Intimate relationships
Alice Dixon Le Plongeon
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...