Profile of Josephine Diebitsch, who married polar explorer Robert E. Peary. Sh
Profile of Josephine Diebitsch, who married polar explorer Robert E. Peary. She kept her marriage together after he fell in love with an Inuit woman, became a best-selling author, and retired at the end of her life to 290 Baxter Boulevard in Portland. She was a veteran of half a dozen polar expediti...
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Portland Public Library Digital Commons
2009
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| Summary: | Profile of Josephine Diebitsch, who married polar explorer Robert E. Peary. She kept her marriage together after he fell in love with an Inuit woman, became a best-selling author, and retired at the end of her life to 290 Baxter Boulevard in Portland. She was a veteran of half a dozen polar expeditions and outlived her husband by three decades. Robert Peary's gift to Josephine on her 50th birthday was a custom-designed necklace of Maine gem tourmalines. |
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