DROWER, E. S.

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Peacock Angel: Being Some Account of Votaries of a Secret Cult and Their Sanctuaries. First edition, first impression, of this account of Iraq's Yazidis and their monotheistic religion, centred on a creator and seven divine beings, including the Peacock Angel. During her long anthropological career, Lady Ethel Drower (1879-1972) devoted her "observational and descriptive talent" (ODNB) to Near Eastern cultural and religious history, enjoying an advantage over male colleagues, who were forbidden from entering female-only spaces.

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