Amelia Ann Edwards (1831 - 1892)

Short name Amelia Ann Edwards
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First name Amelia Ann
Birth name Edwards
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Alternative name Amelia Ann Blandford Edwards , Amelia Ann Blanford Edwards
Date of birth 1831
Date of death 1892
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Sex Female
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Lived in England
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Education Educated at home
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Amelia Ann Edwards was ...
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Memberships Egypt Exploration Fund
Place(s) of Residence England
Receptions of Amelia Ann Edwards, the person (for receptions of her works, see under each individual Work)
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Hilda van Suylenburg Cecile de Jong van Beek en Donk 1897 mentions person
MENTIONED IN: - Buck, Guide to women's literature, 1992: She was a highly succesful Egyptologist and even earned herself a doctorate from Columbia University. - Cambr. Nat Biogr. Cf. - Ivonne Defant, Women journalists as cultural mediators: Frances Power Cobbe and Jessie White Mario in Italy (follow link; about use of French language)
Amelia Edwards never married, but lived and travelled for much of her life with a female companion. Translated into French by E.T. Guidi, Mme Z. Tardieu, Mlle Anna Petit, Mme Charles Poncet. Illustrated her own A Thousand Miles up the Nile. - Egyptologist Place(s) of residence: Westbury-on-Trym, England. Place of death: Weston-super-Mare, England