Desmond, Lawrence Gustave. Yucatan Through Her Eyes: Alice Dixon Le Plongeon, Writer and Expeditionary Photographer. University of New Mexico, 2009.
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death | Alice Dixon 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... |
Dedications | Alice Dixon Le Plongeon | 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... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Alice Dixon Le Plongeon | Augustus Le Plongeon
, who was in London to study ancient Mayan objects at the British Museum
, met Alice Dixon
shortly after his arrival. Desmond, Lawrence Gustave. Yucatan Through Her Eyes: Alice Dixon Le Plongeon, Writer and Expeditionary Photographer. University of New Mexico, 2009. 16-17 |
Family and Intimate relationships | Alice Dixon Le Plongeon | Alice Dixon
finally married Augustus Le Plongeon
in Brooklyn, New York, after accompanying him, unmarried, on the voyage from England. Desmond, Lawrence Gustave. Yucatan Through Her Eyes: Alice Dixon Le Plongeon, Writer and Expeditionary Photographer. University of New Mexico, 2009. 23 |
Family and Intimate relationships | Alice Dixon Le Plongeon | 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, 1988. 120 |
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... |
Fictionalization | Alice Dixon Le Plongeon | 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... |
Health | Alice Dixon Le Plongeon | 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... |
Literary responses | Alice Dixon Le Plongeon | 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... |
Literary responses | Alice Dixon Le Plongeon | 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. Lyons, Claire L., and Lawrence Gustave Desmond. “Foreword”. Yucatan through her eyes: Alice Dixon Le Plongeon, Writer and Expeditionary Photographer., University of New Mexico, 2009, p. xiii - xx. xviii |
Occupation | Alice Dixon Le Plongeon | As scholars became increasingly critical of Augustus
, he remained in the background writing while Alice continued to make public appearances. Desmond, Lawrence Gustave. Yucatan Through Her Eyes: Alice Dixon Le Plongeon, Writer and Expeditionary Photographer. University of New Mexico, 2009. 266 |
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... |
Reception | Alice Dixon Le Plongeon | 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... |
Residence | Alice Dixon Le Plongeon | 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... |
Textual Features | Alice Dixon Le Plongeon | 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... |
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