Adela Breton
Subtitle: A Victorian Artist Amid Mexico's Ruins
Publisher: University of New Mexico Press
Published: December 16, 2005
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 224
ISBN-13: 9780826336781
Subjects: Individual artists; Women; Biography/Autobiography; Biography; Biography & Autobiography; Biography / Autobiography; Mexico; Latin America - Mexico; Indian architecture; Artists, Architects, Photographers; Biography & Autobiography / Women; Women artists; Antiquities; Indians of Mexico
Description: Mary McVicker relates the story of Adela Breton, a Victorian gentlewoman who spent a lifetime of travel, exploring past cultures and landscapes in Mexico. She tells of her independence from the strictures of Victorian life, as well as her career as an artist-archaeologist and the significance of her work.