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Title: The mistress of the Elgin marbles: a biography of Mary Nisbet Countess of Elgin / Susan Nagel [Go to resource]
Description: This is the story of Mary Nisbet the countess of Elgin. Containing extensive details from primary sources with excerpts from the countess's own letters the author draws a portrait of the formidable woman who helped bring the smallpox vaccine to the Middle East and financed the removal of classical marbles from the Parthenon. Source: Lincolnshire County Council Identifier: http://www.lincstothepast.com/Records/Re... Go to resource More Like this...
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