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
The drowned woman and her husband The drowned woman and her husband The drowned woman and her husband is a story found in Mediaeval jest-books that entered the fable tradition in the 16th century. It was occasionally included in collections of Aesop's Fables but never became established as such and has no number in the Perry Index. Folk variants in which a contrary wife is sought upstream by her husband after she drowns are catalogued under the Aarne-Thompson classification system as type 1365A. One of the earliest appearances of the story is in the 12th century, when it was included in Marie de France's rhymed fables,