The Travel Chronicles of Mrs J. Theodore Bent: Mabel Bent"s Diaries of 1883-1898, from the Archive of the Joint Library of the Hellenic and Roman Societies, London v. III Mabel Virginia Anna Hall-Dare was the extraordinary wife of the English explorer and archaeologist James Theodore Bent. In the early 1880s the couple began a fifteen-year series of highly-regarded geographical, archaeological and ethnographical researches in the eastern Mediterranean, Africa and Arabia. Full description