Augustus Le Plongeon

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

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

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...

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...

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...

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...

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 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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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

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...

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