Eugenie Sellers Strong : Portrait of an Archaeologist

Dyson, Stephen L.

Duckworth Pub（2003/12発売）

• 製本 Hardcover:ハードカバー版／ページ数 288 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9780715632192
• DDC分類 509

Full Description

An account of the life of Eugenie Sellers Strong, archaeologist and Assistant Director of the British School at Rome, friend to Lady Ottoline Morrell and Jane Harrison, who Gladstone once described as his "first and only love". She lived through a fascinating, tumultuous and ultimately tragic period of European history. Born in the Golden Age of Queen Victoria, she died at the moment when the titanic struggle of World War II was reaching its height, with some of the most dramatic scenes taking place outside her Roman front door. Eugenie Sellers Strong was a pioneer: she was among the first women in England to receive a university education and, after leaving Cambridge, went on to become a professional archaeologist. She was made Assistant Director of the British School at Rome where, some say, her ghost haunts the library still.From the Pre-Raphaelite drawing rooms of 1880s London to the salons of Mussolini's Italy, Eugene Sellers Strong was an active presence on the enjoyed close friendships with some of the most important writers, artists and intellectuals of her day, among the, Edward Burne-Jones, Edmund Gosse; Gertrude Bell, Frederick Leighton, Lady Ottoline Morrell and Jane Harrison.