A Review of 'Tessa Verney Wheeler: Women and Archaeology Before World War Two'

Abstract

Lydia Carr improves our understanding of the nature and exact balance of Tessa Wheeler’s archaeological partnership with her husband, R. E. M. Wheeler so that Tessa’s work might finally be appreciated on its own merits. She also uses Tessa’s career as a ‘ point d’appui for a greater understanding of the female role in British archaeology prior to the Second World War’.