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10 de ago. de 2016 · Some of their names were: Lady Lucy Hester Hawker, Lord Adolphus FitzClarence, Sophia Sidney, Baroness De L’Isle and Dudley, Amelia Cary, Vicountess Falkland, and Elizabeth Hay, Countess of Erroll.
Lady Hester Lucy Stanhope (12 March 1776 – 23 June 1839) was a British adventurer, writer, antiquarian, and one of the most famous travellers of her age. Her excavation of Ascalon in 1815 is considered the first to use modern archaeological principles, and her use of a medieval Italian document is described as "one of the earliest uses of textual sources by field archaeologists".
18 de noviembre de 2021, 18:34. Lady Hester Stanhope incurrió en todo tipo de extravagancias que no encajaban en el modelo de señorita aristócrata del siglo XIX. Fue una aventurera excéntrica ...
Lady Hester Lucy Stanhope was born in 1776, the first child of Charles, Earl Stanhope, and his wife, Lady Hester, née Pitt, who died when Hester was only four. She grew up at the family home, Chevening in Kent, and at 24 went to live with her grandmother, Lady Chatham, widow of the former Prime Minister William Pitt the Elder, in Somerset.
The best biography of Lady Hester is Lady Hester Lucy Stanhope by Frank Hamel (London, 1913). For a brief account of Lady Hester’s expedition and for the background of Biblical exploration in the early decades of the 19th century, see the author’s Digging for God and Country: Exploration, Archaeology and the Secret Struggle for the Holy Land , 1799–1917 (New York, 1982), Chapter 3.
Lady Hester Lucy Stanhope fue una aristócrata inglesa aventurera y anticuaria. Una de las más famosas viajeras de su tiempo, su excavación de Ascalón en 1815 se considera la primera en utilizar técnicas arqueológicas modernas, y su uso de un documento en italiano medieval ha sido descrito como "uno de los primeros usos de fuentes de texto por arqueólogos de campo".
2 de nov. de 2021 · Lady Hester Stanhope fue la mujer que pudo reinar, una aventurera orgullosa e indómita que dejó la envarada Londres de principios del XIX para vivir un sueño al otro lado del mundo. Durante ...
