Alice Dixon Le Plongeon

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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 songs, and numerous articles. Most of her writings relate to her time spent in Yucatán, Mexico, with her husband, Augustus Le Plongeon . The work of both Le Plongeons was dismissed and even ridiculed by most scholars during her lifetime, and after ADLP 's death she was almost completely forgotten except as the loyal wife of the opinionated Dr Le Plongeon.
Desmond, Lawrence Gustave. Yucatan Through Her Eyes: Alice Dixon Le Plongeon, Writer and Expeditionary Photographer. University of New Mexico.
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Black and white photograph of Alice Dixon Le Plongeon, seated, holding a caliper compass against a large piece of paper or fabric. She is wearing a long dress, decorated with buttons and ruffles, and tied with a bow at the neckline. Her hair is partially pulled back and partially left down in dark curls.

Milestones

21 December 1851

Alice Dixon (later Le Plongeon) was born at 83 Stanhope Street in the Regent's Park district of London, the second of nine children.
Desmond, Lawrence Gustave. Yucatan Through Her Eyes: Alice Dixon Le Plongeon, Writer and Expeditionary Photographer. University of New Mexico.
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28 July 1873

ADLP began a diary of her travels to and in Yucatán, which incorporated field notes and correspondence. The last entry is dated 22 September 1876.
Desmond, Lawrence Gustave. Yucatan Through Her Eyes: Alice Dixon Le Plongeon, Writer and Expeditionary Photographer. University of New Mexico.
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1886

ADLP published her first book, Here and There in Yucatan, a compilation of eighteen of her articles about Yucatán.
Desmond, Lawrence Gustave. Yucatan Through Her Eyes: Alice Dixon Le Plongeon, Writer and Expeditionary Photographer. University of New Mexico.
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May 1902

ADLP published the first of her two epic poems, Queen Móo's Talisman: The Fall of the Maya Empire.
Desmond, Lawrence Gustave. Yucatan Through Her Eyes: Alice Dixon Le Plongeon, Writer and Expeditionary Photographer. University of New Mexico.
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April 1909

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.
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8 June 1910

ADLP died of breast cancer at Woman's Hospital in New York City, only eighteen months after her husband's death.
Desmond, Lawrence Gustave. Yucatan Through Her Eyes: Alice Dixon Le Plongeon, Writer and Expeditionary Photographer. University of New Mexico.
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Biography

Birth and Family

21 December 1851

Alice Dixon (later Le Plongeon) was born at 83 Stanhope Street in the Regent's Park district of London, the second of nine children.
Desmond, Lawrence Gustave. Yucatan Through Her Eyes: Alice Dixon Le Plongeon, Writer and Expeditionary Photographer. University of New Mexico.
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