![]() Since that momentous day we had excavated in every major site in Egypt and written extensively on our discoveries. Will I ever forget that magical moment when I entered a tomb in the desolate cliffs bordering the Nile and found him delirious with fever, in desperate need of attentions he was helpless to resist? The bond forged between us by my expert nursing was strengthened by the dangers we subsequently shared and in due course, Reader, I married him. (Oxford), Member of the American Philosophical Society, et cetera, preeminent Egyptologist of this or any other era, was frequently to be encountered in unusual, not to say peculiar, surroundings. "Professor Radcliffe Emerson, F.R.S., F.B.A., LL.D. ![]() ![]() “…I always try to become friendly with the women, in hope of instructing them in the rights and privileges to which their sex is morally entitled.” She spins her recollections in the first person with an almost encyclopedic knowledge of Egyptology and archeology.Īnd let Peabody tell you about her brilliant and pretentious husband. Let me tell you a bit about that 19th Century fictional feminist Amelia Peabody. ![]()
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