English novelist, traveller and Egyptologist, 1831–1892
This article is about the 19th-century writer. For the 20th-century publisher, see Amelia Edwards (publisher).
Amelia Edwards
Amelia B. Edwards in 1890
Born
7 June 1831 (1831-06-07)
London, United Kingdom
Died
15 April 1892 (1892-04-16) (aged 60)
Weston-super-Mare, United Kingdom
Resting place
St Mary's Church, Henbury
Amelia Ann Blanford Edwards (7 June 1831 – 15 April 1892), also known as Amelia B. Edwards,[1] was an English novelist, journalist, traveller and Egyptologist. Her literary successes included the ghost story The Phantom Coach (1864), the novels Barbara's History (1864) and Lord Brackenbury (1880), and the travelogue of Egypt A Thousand Miles up the Nile (1877). She also edited a poetry anthology published in 1878.[2]
In 1882, she co-founded the Egypt Exploration Fund. She gained the nickname "Godmother of Egyptology" for her contribution.
Amelia Ann Blanford Edwards (7 June 1831 – 15 April 1892), also known as Amelia B. Edwards, was an English novelist, journalist, traveller and Egyptologist...
Allston Collins, AmeliaEdwards and Harriet Parr) "Tom Tiddler's Ground" (1861) (with Wilkie Collins, Charles Allston Collins, AmeliaEdwards and John Harwood)...
publisher of children's books, founded in 1978 by Sebastian Walker, AmeliaEdwards, and Wendy Boase. In 1991, the success of Walker Books' Where's Wally...
British non-profit organization. The society was founded in 1882 by AmeliaEdwards and Reginald Stuart Poole in order to examine and excavate in the areas...
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toys was such a widespread occupation in all Gardenese families that AmeliaEdwards called Urtijëi the "capital of Toyland". One of the valley's best-known...
1860) with Wilkie Collins, Henry F. Chorley, Charles Allston Collins, AmeliaEdwards, and Harriet Parr. Tom Tiddler's Ground in the Extra Christmas Number...
The Amelia Peabody series is a series of twenty historical mystery novels and one non-fiction companion volume written by Egyptologist Barbara Mertz (1927–2013)...
1889-1890, Egyptologist and founder of the Egypt Exploration Society AmeliaEdwards gave her first and last lectures here, in November and March, respectively...
Dickens, Wilkie Collins, Robert Buchanan, Charles Allston Collins, AmeliaEdwards and Harriet Parr, written in 1860 for the Christmas issue of All the...
the Nile: Writings of Harriet Martineau, Florence Nightingale, and AmeliaEdwards. London: Rubicon Press (1995, 2008). Rehmeyer, Julia (26 November 2008)...
extensive account of the expedition, based on the tableaux, was provided by AmeliaEdwards in 1891. According to Stuart Tyson Smith, Egyptologist and professor...
of the Faun, Pompeii 7 June: AmeliaEdwards, English Egyptologist and fiction writer (died 1892) "Grave of AmeliaEdwards, Non Civil Parish - 1439170 -...
of Edwards Professor of Egyptian Archaeology and Philology at University College London was set up and funded in 1892 following a bequest from Amelia Edwards...
friend, the journalist and traveller AmeliaEdwards, was a founding member of the EEF. Kate Bradbury met AmeliaEdwards in late 1887 or early 1888, and Bradbury...
Palaeolithic archaeologist of the Near East (died 1968). April 15 - AmeliaEdwards, English Egyptologist and fiction writer (born 1831) "The scientific...
at University College London. The chair was founded on the death of AmeliaEdwards of the Egyptian Exploration Fund in 1892, who bequeathing her collection...
pylons–we should not think it strange. — Amelia B. Edwards, A thousand miles up the Nile / by Amelia B. Edwards, 1831-1892, p. 207. These visits are only...
the 1970s, Edwards and Andrews adopted two Vietnamese daughters; Amy Leigh (later known as Amelia) in 1974 and Joanna Lynne in 1975. Edwards described...
Amenhotep III, from a double statue. From Bubastis (Tell-Basta), Egypt. From the AmeliaEdwards Collection. The Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology, London...
where Pedesi and Pihor were buried or a representation of their tomb. AmeliaEdwards, an English writer who visited the temple on her 19th-century tour up...
and Mary Booth ('the two MBs') visited Egypt. While in Egypt, she met AmeliaEdwards, another English traveller, who was traveling with Lucy Renshaw and...
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