Elizabeth Sinkler Coxe's tales from the grand tour, 1890-1910

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The work Elizabeth Sinkler Coxe's tales from the grand tour, 1890-1910 represents a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in University of Missouri-St. Louis Libraries. This resource is a combination of several types including: Work, Language Material, Books.

Label

Elizabeth Sinkler Coxe's tales from the grand tour, 1890-1910

Statement of responsibility

edited by Anne Sinkler Whaley LeClercq

Contributor

• Coxe, Elizabeth Sinkler, 1843-1919
• LeClercq, Anne Sinkler Whaley, 1942-

Subject

• Africa, North -- Description and travel
• Coxe, Elizabeth Sinkler, 1843-1919
• Coxe, Elizabeth Sinkler, 1843-1919 -- Travel -- Africa, North
• Coxe, Elizabeth Sinkler, 1843-1919 -- Travel -- Europe
• Electronic books
• Europa
• Europe
• Europe -- Description and travel
• Nordafrika
• North Africa
• Reisebericht
• TRAVEL -- Essays & Travelogues
• Travel

Genre

• Electronic books
• Reisebericht

Language

eng

Summary

• "Elizabeth Sinkler Coxe's Tales from the Grand Tour, 1890-1910 is a travelogue of captivating adventures through exotic lands as experienced by an intrepid American aristocrat and her son at the dawn of the twentieth century."
• "Like many of their peers in the upper echelons of American society, this wealthy duo were drawn into the Egyptian craze that swept late-nineteenth-century society, and they fully immersed themselves in the nascent field of scientific archaeology. More obsessed and philanthropic than most, the Coxes not only visited the sites and monuments of ancient civilizations but also participated in digs, funded entire expeditions, and ultimately subsidized the creation of the Coxe Wing of Ancient History at the University of Pennsylvania Museum. In addition to the scholarly contributions gained through their patronage, they left a vivid chronicle of camels and trains, tents and trenches, and dervishes and pyramids that has gone unpublished until now."
• "Her letters and recollections are complemented by numerous photographs and several original watercolor paintings. By words and pictures, Lizzie Coxe's Tales from the Grand Tour reveal the turn-of-the-century excitement about the burgeoning field of Egyptology, the intellectual pursuits available to women of means, and the familial and social ties between the upper classes of the North and South, that predated and survived the Civil War."--Jacket

Member of

• Women's diaries and letters of the South

Biography type

contains biographical information

Cataloging source

N$T

Dewey number

910.4092

Government publication

government publication of a state province territory dependency etc

Illustrations

• illustrations
• plates

Index

index present

Language note

English

LC call number

D919

LC item number

.E44 2006eb

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

• dictionaries
• bibliography

Series statement

Women's diaries and letters of the South