Lady Hester Stanhope

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". Her letters and memoirs made her famous as an explorer.

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"A poor gentlewoman, doctor, is the worst thing in the world"

- Lady Hester Stanhope

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"I shall go on making sublime and philosophical discoveries, and employing myself in deep, abstract studies."

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"Nobody is such a fool as to moider away his time in the slip-slop conversation of a pack of women."

- Lady Hester Stanhope

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"I have nothing to fear… I am the sun, the stars, the pearl, the lion, the light from heaven."

- Lady Hester Stanhope

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"I shall not allow the pension… to be stopped by force: I shall resign it,"

- Lady Hester Stanhope

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"It is only the vulgar who are always fancying themselves insulted. If a man treads on another's toe in good society, do you think it is taken as an insult?"

- Lady Hester Stanhope

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