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...
Textual Production
Alice Dixon Le Plongeon
ADLP
coauthored at least one book, The Monuments of Mayach and their Historical Teachings, with her husband Augustus
, but it was never published owing to lack of funding. However, it would not have...
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, 2009.
315, 323
Travel
Alice Dixon Le Plongeon
Alice
and Augustus Le Plongeon
left Yucatán by boat to photograph and map ruins on the nearby islands.
qtd. in
Desmond, Lawrence Gustave, and Phyllis Messenger. A Dream of Maya: Augustus and Alice Le Plongeon in Nineteenth Century Yucatan. University of New Mexico, 1988.
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Wealth and Poverty
Alice Dixon 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...