User:K8shep/Lina Eckenstein
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In 1902 she walked through the upper Arno valley and published an account of her travels. The following year she began a new escapade, working with the archaeologists Hilda and Flinders Petrie in Egypt. She took on the administrative role of running the excavations camp and ensuring that finds were catalogued correctly. She worked at excavations at Abydos, Saqqara, Serabit el-Khadim, and El Shatt. In the Osireion at Abydos, she copied the art on the wall.[1] At the temple of King Seti, she made a connection between some Egyptian art and a child's nursery rhyme.[2] She was so intrigued by the connection between the 3,000-year-old cult picture and the story of the death of Cock Robin that she published a comparative study of nursery rhymes in 1906. In 1921 she published A History of Sinai which drew on her work with the Petries, tracing the history of the area back to before the Egyptians.[3] Eckenstein was well-qualified to publish books on the Sinai, as she had trekked across it by camel with Hilda Petrie (c.1905) and a single guide. She published several other books that mixed fact with imagination. One of her books published in 1924, Tutankh-aten, was about the imagined childhood of Moses.[2]
From 1908 she became more involved in the campaign to improve women's rights. As part of this, she was supporting her previous pupil, and now friend, Margery Corbett in Geneva in 1920. Margery was the secretary of the National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies. They both attended the International Women's Suffrage Alliance congress, where Eckenstein ensured that the proceedings were available in a variety of European languages.[2]
She died on 4 May 1931 from exhaustion and chronic cystitis at Little Hampden, Great Missenden, Buckinghamshire.
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- Eckenstein, Lina, 1857-1931: (London: Duckworth, 1906) (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Eckenstein, Lina, 1857-1931: (Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 1896) (HTML at Wisconsin)
- Eckenstein, Lina, 1857-1931: (Gutenberg ebook)
- Eckenstein, Lina, 1857-1931: (Duckworth, 1920) (page images at HathiTrust)
- Eckenstein, Lina, 1857-1931: (Gutenberg ebook)
- Eckenstein, Lina, 1857-1931: (University Press, 1889), also by William Martin Conway (page images at HathiTrust)
- Eckenstein, Lina, 1857-1931, contrib.: , by Wilhelm Hauff (Gutenberg ebook)
- Eckenstein, Lina, 1857-1931: , illust. by Lucy Du Bois-Reymond (Gutenberg ebook)
- Eckenstein, Lina, 1857-1931: (University Press ;, 1896) (page images at HathiTrust)
- Eckenstein, Lina, 1857-1931: (Russell & Russell, 1963) (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
- Eckenstein, Lina, 1857-1931: (Gutenberg ebook)
References[edit]
- ^ Murray, Margaret (1904). The Osireion at Abydos. London: Egyptian Research Account. p. 1.
- ^ a b c Sybil Oldfield, 'Eckenstein, Lina Dorina Johanna (1857–1931)', Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, Sept 2014 accessed 1 October 2015
- ^ The History of Sinai, The Spectator, 3 December 1921, p.27.