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Margaret Stefana "Peggy" Drower MBE (1911–2012) was a historian of Ancient Near Eastern History and Egyptology. She was awarded the MBE and elected a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London.[1][2] She wrote the definitive biography of Flinders Petrie.[3]Early lifeDrower was the daughter of Edwin Drower, a British diplomat, and Ethel Stefana Drower, an anthropologist, specialist on the Mandaeans and (under the name E. S. Stevens) a well-published author of romantic novels. She was a student of Flinders Petrie, Margaret Murray and Stephen Glanville, and become one of the first Egyptology graduates from University College London (UCL).[1] CareerDrower's excavations included Armant with O. H. Myers, Robert Mond and Ali Suefi, and at Amarna with John Pendlebury. Stephen Glanville recommended her for a post in the History department at UCL. During the Second World War she worked with Freya Stark at the Baghdad Ministry of Information, using her skill as an Arabic speaker. After the war she returned to UCL to become a Reader in Ancient History and developed the Ancient History/Egyptology degree. After her retirement she became a Fellow of UCL and a visiting Professor at the Institute of Archaeology. She contributed to many books, especially the Cambridge Ancient History series, and documentary programmes on the ancient Middle East. Her key work was on the life and correspondence of Flinders Petrie.[1] Bibliography- {{citation |last=Petrie |first=W M Flinders |year=2004 |title=Letters from the desert : the correspondence of Flinders and Hilda Petrie |last3=Drower |first3=Margaret S |author2=Hilda Petrie, Lady |publisher=Aris and Phillips |isbn=9780856687488}}
- {{citation |last=Drower |first=Margaret S |year=1985 |title=Flinders Petrie : A life in archaeology |publisher=Gollancz |isbn=9780575036673}}
- {{citation |last=Edwards |first=I E S |year=1975 |title=The Cambridge ancient history. / Vol. 2. Part 2, History of the Middle East and the Aegean region, c. 1380-1000 B.C |publisher=Cambridge University Press |isbn=0511466773 |doi=10.1017/CHOL9780521086912}}
- {{citation |last=Edwards |first=I E S |year=1973 |title=The Cambridge ancient history. / Vol. 2. Part 1, History of the Middle East and the Aegean region, c. 1800-1380 B.C |publisher=Cambridge University Press |isbn=0511466765 |doi=10.1017/CHOL9780521082303}}
- {{citation |last=Patrick |first=Richard |year=1972 |title=All colour book of Egyptian mythology |last2=Drower |first2=Margaret S |publisher=Cathay Books |isbn=9780861780396}}
- {{citation |last=Drower |first=Margaret S |year=1970 |title=Nubia: a drowning land |last2=Sorrell |first2=Alan |publisher=New York, Atheneum |oclc=445809}}
- {{citation |last=Drower |first=Margaret S |year=1970 |title=Syria c. 1550-1400 B.C |publisher=Cambridge, Cambridge University Press |series=Cambridge ancient history. Rev. ed., fasc. 64 |isbn=9780521074117}}
- {{citation |last=Drower |first=Margaret S |year=1968 |title=Syria before 2200 B.C |last2=Bottéro |first2=Jean |publisher=London, Cambridge University Press |series=Cambridge ancient history. Rev. ed., fasc. 55 |oclc=41788}}
- {{citation |last=Drower |first=Margaret S |year=1968 |title=Ugarit |publisher=University Press |series=Cambridge ancient history. Rev. ed., fasc. 63 |isbn=9780521073219}}
- {{citation |last=Drower |first=Margaret S |year=1965 |title=Umetnost Egipta |last2=Wood |first2=Roger |publisher=Jugoslavija |language=Serbian |oclc=440612497}}
- {{citation |last=Wood |first=Roger |year=1964 |title=Egypt in color |last2=Drower |first2=Margaret S |publisher=New York, McGraw-Hill |oclc=475265}}
- {{citation |last=Drower |first=Margaret S |year=1942 |title=The political approach to the classical world |publisher=Clarendon |location=Glanville, Stephen Ranulph Kingdon, ed. The legacy of Egypt. |oclc=80184598}}
- {{citation |last=Glanville |first=S R K |year=1942 |title=The legacy of Egypt |publisher=Oxford, Clarendon Press |oclc=910976}}
- {{citation |last=Mond |first=Robert |year=1940 |title=Temples of Armant : A preliminary survey |last2=Myers |first2=Oliver Humphrys |last3=Drower |first3=Margaret Stefana |publisher=The Egypt Exploration Society |series=Memoir, 43 |oclc=601564227}}
- {{citation |last=Drower |first=Margaret S |title=The domestication of the horse |location=The domestication and exploitation of plants and animals, S. 471-478 |oclc=605737110}}
- {{citation |author=Margaret S. Drower |title=Petrie, Sir (William Matthew) Flinders |publisher=Oxford Oxford University Press |location=Matthew, H. C. G., editor; Oxford Dictionary of National Biography |url=http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/35496 |doi=10.1093/ref:odnb/35496}}
References1. ^1 2 {{cite web|url=http://www.ucl.ac.uk/archaeology/calendar/articles/20121116|title=Margaret Stefana Drower|date=16 November 2012|publisher=University College London}} 2. ^{{cite book|last=Drower|first=Margaret|title=Letters from the desert: the correspondence of Flinders and Hilda Petrie|date=2004|publisher=Aris & Phillips|location=Warminster|isbn=0856687480}} 3. ^{{cite book|last=Drower|first=Margaret S.|title=Flinders Petrie a life in archaeology|date=1995|publisher=University of Wisconsin Press|location=Madison, Wis.|isbn=9780299146238|edition=2nd}}
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