| Short name |
Amelia Ann Edwards |
| VIAF |
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| First name |
Amelia Ann |
| Maiden name |
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| Married name |
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| Alternative name |
Amelia Ann Blandford Edwards
,
Amelia Ann Blanford Edwards
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| Date of birth |
1831 |
| Date of death |
1892 |
| Flourishing |
- |
| Sex |
Female |
| Place of birth |
- |
| Place of death |
- |
| Lived in |
England
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| Place of residence notes |
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| Related to |
-
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| Bibliography |
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) |
| Provisional Notes |
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 |