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Anne Cary Maudslay
d. 1926
An American-born traveler and writer, she is best remembered for a lively book on Guatemala created with her husband, explorer Alfred Percival Maudslay. Her work opens a window onto late 19th-century travel and archaeology in Central America.
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A Glimpse at Guatemala And Some Notes on the Ancient Monuments of Central America
by Anne Cary Maudslay, Alfred Percival Maudslay
About the author
Born Anne Cary Morris around 1847, she later became Anne Cary Maudslay after marrying the British explorer and archaeologist Alfred Percival Maudslay in 1892. Sources identify her as American and note family ties to the Morris family of New York.
She is most closely associated with A Glimpse at Guatemala, an account of travels in Guatemala that grew out of the Maudslays' journey there in the 1890s. Although her husband is better known in Maya archaeology, Anne Cary Maudslay's writing helped record the landscapes, travel conditions, and impressions of the region for English-language readers.
She died in September 1926. Reliable source material about her life is fairly limited, but the surviving records show her as a travel writer and partner in one of the better-known exploration couples of her era.