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Josephine Cecilia Peary (née Diebitsch; May 22, 1863 – December 19, 1955) was an American author and arctic explorer. [2] [3] She was the wife of Robert Peary , who claimed to be the first to have reached the geographic North Pole .
Josephine Diebitsch Peary. Arctic exploration was not just a personal obsession for Robert Peary, but a family affair. In 1888 Peary married Josephine Diebitsch, the daughter of a linguist at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C. Married life for the Pearys was hardly mundane; in June of 1891 Josephine accompanied her husband and the ...
May 9, 2021 · Learn about Josephine Cecilia Diebitsch Peary, the first white woman to winter in the Arctic and the first to give birth there. She accompanied her husband Robert E. Peary on his expeditions to the North Pole and wrote books about her experiences.
Jun 24, 2021 · Her works include My Tales of the Arctic (1893), The Snow Baby (1901), and Children of the Arctic (1903). Josephine Diebitsch Peary led an unconventional life, embodying her own vision of what a woman’s life could be, without boundary and outside of societal norms.
- Marguerite Roby
- 2021
Sep 14, 2021 · Josephine Diebitsch Peary, the wife of Robert E. Peary, Class of 1877, was a woman of many talents who supported her husband’s Arctic career both at home and in the north. Jo overwintered in the Arctic three times and gave birth to their daughter Marie there in 1893.
May 31, 2024 · In My Arctic Journey: A Year among Ice-Fields and Eskimos (1894), Josephine Diebitsch-Peary documents her experiences during the North Greenland Expedition of 1891–92, which began ominously when her husband, the famed Arctic explorer Robert E. Peary, broke his leg aboard the Kite and was carried to the expedition headquarters near ...
One woman whose role has been largely overlooked is Josephine Diebitsch Peary, one of the first non-Inuit women to establish, somewhat reluctantly, a high profile as a female Arctic explorer. Josephine was born in 1863 on a farm in Maryland.
