Katharine Woolley Mesopotamia" by Agatha Christie; Christie's second marriage in 1930 was to Max Mallowan, Sir Leonard Woolley's assistant at Ur. During World War II, her husband was involved with monitoring Nazi looting of museums, galleries and archives; she assisted with this work. She died of multiple sclerosis on 8 November 1945 in The Dorchester, where she and her husband had been living for several years. Katharine Woolley Katharine Woolley, née Menke (June 1888 – 8 November 1945) was a British archaeologist who worked principally at the Mesopotamian site of Ur. She was married to archaeologist Sir Charles Leonard Woolley. She was
Married Women's Property Acts in the United States contract with a publisher and to control what her writings earned depended on the state or states where she and her husband lived at the time. As of 1887, one-third of the states had not provided statutory protection for a married women to control her earnings. Three states gave married women no legal status until late in the nineteenth century: Delaware, South Carolina, and Virginia. Even where statutes appeared to establish some measure of rights for a married women, courts interpreted statutes to her disadvantage and relied on common law whenever a statute was less than explicit. Married Women's Property