Amelia Ann Blanford Edwards (7 June 1831 – 15 April 1892), also known as Amelia B. Edwards, was an English
novelist
A novelist is an author or writer of novels, though often novelists also write in other genres of both fiction and non-fiction. Some novelists are professional novelists, thus make a living writing novels and other fiction, while others aspire to ...
,
journalist
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, traveller and
Egyptologist
Egyptology (from ''Egypt'' and Greek , '' -logia''; ar, علم المصريات) is the study of ancient Egyptian history, language, literature, religion, architecture and art from the 5th millennium BC until the end of its native religious ...
. 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.
In 1882, she co-founded the
Egypt Exploration Fund
The Egypt Exploration Society (EES) is a British non-profit organization. The society was founded in 1882 by Amelia Edwards and Reginald Stuart Poole in order to examine and excavate in the areas of Egypt and Sudan. The intent was to study and an ...
. She gained the nickname "Godmother of Egyptology" for her contribution.
Early life
Born on 7 June 1831 in Islington, London,
to an Irish mother and a father who had been a
British Army
The British Army is the principal land warfare force of the United Kingdom, a part of the British Armed Forces along with the Royal Navy and the Royal Air Force. , the British Army comprises 79,380 regular full-time personnel, 4,090 Gurk ...
officer before becoming a banker, Edwards was educated at home by her mother and showed early promise as a writer. She published her first poem at the age of seven and her first story at the age of twelve. Thereafter came a variety of poetry, stories and articles in several periodicals, including ''
Chambers's Journal
''Chambers's Edinburgh Journal'' was a weekly 16-page magazine started by William Chambers in 1832. The first edition was dated 4 February 1832, and priced at one penny. Topics included history, religion, language, and science. William was so ...
'', ''
Household Words'' and ''
All the Year Round''. She also wrote for the ''
Saturday Review'' and the ''
Morning Post
''The Morning Post'' was a conservative daily newspaper published in London from 1772 to 1937, when it was acquired by ''The Daily Telegraph''.
History
The paper was founded by John Bell. According to historian Robert Darnton, ''The Morning Po ...
''.
In addition, Edwards became an artist. She would illustrate some of her own writings and also paint scenes from other books she had read.
She was talented enough at the age of 12 to catch the eye of
George Cruikshank
George Cruikshank (27 September 1792 – 1 February 1878) was a British caricaturist and book illustrator, praised as the "modern Hogarth" during his life. His book illustrations for his friend Charles Dickens, and many other authors, reache ...
, who went so far as to offer to teach her, but this talent of hers was not supported by Edwards's parents, who saw art as a lesser profession and the artist's way of life as scandalous.
Their negative decision haunted Edwards through her early life. She would wonder frequently whether art would not have been her true calling.
Thirdly, Edwards took up composing and performing music for some years, until she suffered a bout of
typhus
Typhus, also known as typhus fever, is a group of infectious diseases that include epidemic typhus, scrub typhus, and murine typhus. Common symptoms include fever, headache, and a rash. Typically these begin one to two weeks after exposure.
...
in 1849 that was followed by a frequently sore throat. This made it hard for her to sing, causing her to lose interest in music and even regret the time she had spent on opera.
Other interests she pursued included pistol shooting, riding and mathematics.
Fiction
Early in the 1850s, Edwards began to focus more exclusively on being a writer.
Her first full-length novel was ''My Brother's Wife'' (1855). Her early novels were well received, but it was ''Barbara's History'' (1864), a novel involving
bigamy
In cultures where monogamy is mandated, bigamy is the act of entering into a marriage with one person while still legally married to another. A legal or de facto separation of the couple does not alter their marital status as married persons. I ...
, that established her reputation. She spent much time and effort on the settings and backgrounds of her books, estimating that it took her about two years to complete the research and writing of each. This paid off when her last novel, ''Lord Brackenbury'' (1880), went into several editions.
Edwards wrote several
ghost stories
A ghost story is any piece of fiction, or drama, that includes a ghost, or simply takes as a premise the possibility of ghosts or characters' belief in them."Ghost Stories" in Margaret Drabble (ed.), ''Oxford Companion to English Literature''. ...
, including "The Phantom Coach" (1864), which frequently appears in anthologies.
The background and characters in many of her writings are influenced by personal experiences. For example, ''Barbara's History'' (1864) uses
Suffolk
Suffolk () is a ceremonial county of England in East Anglia. It borders Norfolk to the north, Cambridgeshire to the west and Essex to the south; the North Sea lies to the east. The county town is Ipswich; other important towns include Lowes ...
as the background, which she had visited for a few enjoyable summer holidays as a child.
Personal life
In January 1851, Amelia Edwards became engaged to a Mr Bacon (first name unknown), possibly out of consideration for her ageing parents, who may have been worried for their daughter's future economic security. There are no signs that point to a love relationship; on the contrary, Edwards does not seem to have felt any particular sympathies for her
fiancé
An engagement or betrothal is the period of time between the declaration of acceptance of a marriage proposal and the marriage itself (which is typically but not always commenced with a wedding). During this period, a couple is said to be ''fi ...
. In December 1851, she broke off the engagement.
Amelia Edwards formed emotional attachments almost exclusively with women. From the early 1860s onwards, she lived with Ellen Drew Braysher (1804–1892, see below), a
widow
A widow (female) or widower (male) is a person whose spouse has Death, died.
Terminology
The state of having lost one's spouse to death is termed ''widowhood''. An archaic term for a widow is "relict," literally "someone left over". This word ...
27 years her senior who had lost her husband and daughter not long after Edwards' parents had died and was to become her companion until both women died in early 1892. Another significant person in Edwards' life was Ellen Byrne, the wife of a pastor and school inspector, with whom Edwards apparently entered a love relationship during the second half of the 1860s. The relationship ended when the husband, John Rice Byrne, was assigned a different school district and the couple moved away, which left Edwards deeply distraught.
Edwards' papers, archived at Somerville College, contain no reference to the intimate quality of this relationship, but a letter from writer and early
homosexual
Homosexuality is romantic attraction, sexual attraction, or sexual behavior between members of the same sex or gender. As a sexual orientation, homosexuality is "an enduring pattern of emotional, romantic, and/or sexual attractions" to peop ...
activist
John Addington Symonds
John Addington Symonds, Jr. (; 5 October 1840 – 19 April 1893) was an English poet and literary critic. A cultural historian, he was known for his work on the Renaissance, as well as numerous biographies of writers and artists. Although m ...
to sexologist
Havelock Ellis
Henry Havelock Ellis (2 February 1859 – 8 July 1939) was an English physician, eugenicist, writer, progressive intellectual and social reformer who studied human sexuality. He co-wrote the first medical textbook in English on homosexuality i ...
reveals that Edwards had mentioned it to Symonds after the two had become friends around 1864. According to Symonds, John Rice Byrne was aware of the nature of his wife's feelings for Edwards and condoned the relationship. Ellis anonymized this information and used it in his publication ''
Studies in the Psychology of Sex Vol. 2
''Studies in the Psychology of Sex Vol. 2'' is a book published in 1900 written by Havelock Ellis (1859–1939), an English physician, writer and social reformer. The book deals with the phenomenon of sexual inversion, an outdated term for homose ...
'' as an example of what he termed "
sexual inversion".
Edwards further maintained important, close friendships with painter
Marianne North
Marianne North (24 October 1830 – 30 August 1890) was a prolific English Victorian biologist and botanical artist, notable for her plant and landscape paintings, her extensive foreign travels, her writings, her plant discoveries and the ...
(1830–1890), her travelling companion Lucy Renshaw (1833–1919) and her closest confidante during her later years,
Kate Bradbury (later Griffith), who also became executrix of Edwards' will.
Dolomites
![The Monte Pelmo](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/74/The_Monte_Pelmo.jpg)
Edwards first heard about the
Dolomites
The Dolomites ( it, Dolomiti ; Ladin: ''Dolomites''; german: Dolomiten ; vec, Dołomiti : fur, Dolomitis), also known as the Dolomite Mountains, Dolomite Alps or Dolomitic Alps, are a mountain range located in northeastern Italy. They form pa ...
in 1853, through sketches brought back to England from Italy. On 27 June 1872, she embarked on a trip through the mountains with her friend Lucy Renshaw.
That day they left
Monte Generoso
Monte Generoso (also known as ''Calvagione'') is a mountain of the Lugano Prealps, located on the border between Switzerland and Italy and between Lake Lugano and Lake Como. The western and southern flanks of the mountain lie in the Swiss cant ...
for
Venice
Venice ( ; it, Venezia ; vec, Venesia or ) is a city in northeastern Italy and the capital of the Veneto Regions of Italy, region. It is built on a group of 118 small islands that are separated by canals and linked by over 400 ...
, one of the three known ways to enter the Dolomites, but not before parting from Renshaw's maid and courtier, who disapproved of such a journey.
Instead the two women hired mountain guides from the region.
On 1 July 1872, after a three-day stay in Venice, Edwards and Renshaw left for
Longarone
Longarone is a town and ''comune'' on the banks of the Piave in the province of Belluno, in northeast Italy. It is situated from Belluno.
4,642 people work all together in Longarone, which is 112.62% of the total population, with most actual in ...
,
Cortina d'Ampezzo,
Pieve di Cadore
Pieve di Cadore is a ''comune'' (municipality) in the province of Belluno in the Italian region of Veneto, about north of Venice and about northeast of Belluno. "Pieve" means "Parish church". It is the birthplace of the Italian painter Titia ...
,
Auronzo di Cadore
Auronzo di Cadore is a ''comune'' (municipality) in the province of Belluno (Cadore) in the Italian region of Veneto, located about north of Venice and about northeast of Belluno. While Auronzo is geographically only from the Austrian border, i ...
, Val Buona,
Caprile
Caprile is a ''comune'' (municipality) in the Province of Biella in the Italian region Piedmont, located about northeast of Turin and about northeast of Biella. As of 31 December 2004, it had a population of 221 and an area of .All demographics a ...
,
Agordo
Agordo ( Local Ladin: ''Agort'', Ladin: ''Ègort'', Austrian German: ''Augarten'') is a town and ''comune'' (municipality) sited in the Province of Belluno, in the Veneto region in Italy. It is located about north of Venice and about northwest ...
,
Primiero
The Primiero (''Primier'' in local dialect) is a valley located in the eastern part of Trentino, Italy. It consists of eight municipalities ('): Canal San Bovo, Fiera di Primiero, Imèr, Mezzano, Sagron Mis, Siròr, Tonadico and Transacqua.
...
,
Predazzo
Predazzo (, literally big meadow) is a village and ''comune'' in the province of Trento, northern Italy. Predazzo is located about 58 kilometres northeast of Trento in Val di Fiemme.
It is one of the main centers of Val di Fiemme (the other is ...
,
Fassa Valley
The Fassa Valley (Ladin: ''Fascia'', it, Val di Fassa, german: Fassatal) is a valley in the Dolomites in Trentino, northern Italy. As an administrative valley community (Italian: ''Comunità di valle'', German: ''Talgemeinschaft'') of Trentino, ...
,
Passo Fedaia, Sasso Bianco,
Forno di Zoldo
Forno di Zoldo was a ''comune'' (municipality) in the Province of Belluno in the Italian region Veneto, located about north of Venice and about north of Belluno. It has been a ''frazione'' of Val di Zoldo since 2016. On 31 December 2004, it ha ...
,
Zoppè di Cadore and Caprile and ended their journey in
Bolzano
Bolzano ( or ; german: Bozen, (formerly ); bar, Bozn; lld, Balsan or ) is the capital city of the province of South Tyrol in northern Italy. With a population of 108,245, Bolzano is also by far the largest city in South Tyrol and the third la ...
.
At the time of Edwards's visit, the Dolomites were described as
terra incognita
''Terra incognita'' or ''terra ignota'' (Latin "unknown land"; ''incognita'' is stressed on its second syllable in Latin, but with variation in pronunciation in English) is a term used in cartography for regions that have not been mapped or do ...
and even educated persons had never heard of them.
This journey was described in her book ''A Midsummer Ramble in the Dolomites'' (1873), later entitled ''Untrodden Peaks and Infrequent Valleys''.
During the expedition, Edwards also sought works of
Titian
Tiziano Vecelli or Vecellio (; 27 August 1576), known in English as Titian ( ), was an Italians, Italian (Republic of Venice, Venetian) painter of the Renaissance, considered the most important member of the 16th-century Venetian school (art), ...
, finding a Madonna and Child in
Serravalle (Vittorio Veneto)
Serravalle (Italian, meaning "place where the valley narrows", and less often meaning "a fortification") may refer to:
Italy Municipalities
* Serravalle a Po, in the province of Mantua
* Serravalle di Chienti, in the province of Macerata
* ...
and two other paintings at a village church in
Cadore
Cadore (; lld, Ciadòre; vec, italic=yes, Cadór or, rarely, ''Cadòria''; german: italic=yes, Cadober or ''Kadober''; Sappada German: ''Kadour''; .
After her descent from the mountains, Edwards described civilized life as a "dead-level World of Commonplace".
In the summer of 1873, dissatisfied by the end of their journey, Edwards and Renshawe took to a walking tour of France.
However, this was interrupted by torrential rains, a factor that influenced them in looking towards Egypt.
Egypt
Edwards, again accompanied by Lucy Renshaw, toured Egypt in the winter of 1873–1874, experiencing a fascination with the land and its cultures, ancient and modern. Journeying southwards from
Cairo
Cairo ( ; ar, القاهرة, al-Qāhirah, ) is the capital of Egypt and its largest city, home to 10 million people. It is also part of the largest urban agglomeration in Africa, the Arab world and the Middle East: The Greater Cairo metro ...
in a hired
dahabiyeh (manned houseboat), the two women visited
Philae
; ar, فيلة; cop, ⲡⲓⲗⲁⲕ
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, image = File:File, Asuán, Egipto, 2022-04-01, DD 93.jpg
, alt =
, caption = The temple of Isis from Philae at its current location on Agilkia Island in Lake Nasse ...
and ultimately reached
Abu Simbel
Abu Simbel is a historic site comprising two massive rock-cut temples in the village of Abu Simbel ( ar, أبو سمبل), Aswan Governorate, Upper Egypt, near the border with Sudan. It is situated on the western bank of Lake Nasser, about sou ...
, where they remained for six weeks.
Another party member was the English painter Andrew McCallum, who discovered a sanctuary that came to bear his name for some time afterwards. Their boat joined a flotilla with another female English traveller,
Marianne Brocklehurst, also travelling with a female companion. Brocklehurst and Edwards remained friends and Brocklehurst later supported her Egypt Exploration Fund.
Edwards wrote a successful, self-illustrated description of her
Nile
The Nile, , Bohairic , lg, Kiira , Nobiin language, Nobiin: Áman Dawū is a major north-flowing river in northeastern Africa. It flows into the Mediterranean Sea. The Nile is the longest river in Africa and has historically been considered ...
voyage entitled ''A Thousand Miles up the Nile'' (1877). Her travels in Egypt made her aware of increasing threats to ancient monuments from tourism and modern development. She set out to hinder these through public awareness and scientific endeavour, becoming an advocate for research and preservation of them. In 1882, she co-founded the
Egypt Exploration Fund
The Egypt Exploration Society (EES) is a British non-profit organization. The society was founded in 1882 by Amelia Edwards and Reginald Stuart Poole in order to examine and excavate in the areas of Egypt and Sudan. The intent was to study and an ...
with
Reginald Stuart Poole
Reginald Stuart Poole (27 January 18328 February 1895), known as Stuart Poole, was an English archaeologist, numismatist and Orientalist. Poole was from a famous Orientalist family as his mother Sophia Lane Poole, his uncle Edward William Lane an ...
, Curator of the Department of Coins and Medals at the
British Museum
The British Museum is a public museum dedicated to human history, art and culture located in the Bloomsbury area of London. Its permanent collection of eight million works is among the largest and most comprehensive in existence. It docum ...
. Edwards became joint Honorary Secretary of the Fund until her death.
![Great Rock-Cut Temple, Abou Simbel, Nubia (1890) - TIMEA](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/11/Great_Rock-Cut_Temple%2C_Abou_Simbel%2C_Nubia_%281890%29_-_TIMEA.jpg)
To advance the Fund's work, Edwards largely abandoned other writing in favour of
Egyptology
Egyptology (from ''Egypt'' and Greek , '' -logia''; ar, علم المصريات) is the study of ancient Egyptian history, language, literature, religion, architecture and art from the 5th millennium BC until the end of its native religious ...
. She contributed to the 9th edition of the ''
Encyclopædia Britannica
The (Latin for "British Encyclopædia") is a general knowledge English-language encyclopaedia. It is published by Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc.; the company has existed since the 18th century, although it has changed ownership various time ...
'', to the American supplement of that and to the ''
Standard Dictionary''. In addition, Edwards took on an strenuous lecture tour in the United States in 1889–1890. The lectures later appeared as ''Pharaohs, Fellahs and Explorers''.
Death and legacy
After catching
influenza
Influenza, commonly known as "the flu", is an infectious disease caused by influenza viruses. Symptoms range from mild to severe and often include fever, runny nose, sore throat, muscle pain, headache, coughing, and fatigue. These symptoms ...
, Edwards died on 15 April 1892 at
Weston-super-Mare
Weston-super-Mare, also known simply as Weston, is a seaside town in North Somerset, England. It lies by the Bristol Channel south-west of Bristol between Worlebury Hill and Bleadon Hill. It includes the suburbs of Mead Vale, Milton, Oldmix ...
, having lived at
Westbury-on-Trym
Westbury on Trym is a suburb and council ward in the north of the City of Bristol, near the suburbs of Stoke Bishop, Westbury Park, Henleaze, Southmead and Henbury, in the southwest of England.
With a village atmosphere, the place is partly ...
, near Bristol, since 1864.
She was buried in the churchyard of
St Mary the Virgin, Henbury, Bristol, where her grave is marked by an
obelisk
An obelisk (; from grc, ὀβελίσκος ; diminutive of ''obelos'', " spit, nail, pointed pillar") is a tall, four-sided, narrow tapering monument which ends in a pyramid-like shape or pyramidion at the top. Originally constructed by Anc ...
with a stone
ankh
Progressive ankylosis protein homolog (ANK ilosis H omolog) is a protein that in humans is encoded by the ''ANKH'' gene.
This gene encodes a multipass transmembrane protein that is expressed in joints and other tissues and controls pyrophosphat ...
at the foot. Alongside are the graves of her life partner of 30 years, Ellen Drew Braysher (9 April 1804 – 9 January 1892), with whom she had lived in Westbury-on-Trym and of Ellen's daughter, Sarah Harriet Braysher (1832–1864). In September 2016,
Historic England
Historic England (officially the Historic Buildings and Monuments Commission for England) is an executive non-departmental public body of the British Government sponsored by the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport. It is tasked wit ...
designated the grave
Grade II listed
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,
as a landmark in English
LGBT
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The LGBT term is a ...
history.
Edwards bequeathed her collection of Egyptian antiquities and her library to
University College London
, mottoeng = Let all come who by merit deserve the most reward
, established =
, type = Public research university
, endowment = £143 million (2020)
, budget = ...
, with a sum of £2,500 to found an
Edwards Chair of Egyptology which had a huge influence on developing egyptology as a discipline. Her dedication to this science earned her the nickname of "the Godmother of Egyptology". Edwards also supported
Somerville College Library
Somerville College Library is the college library of Somerville College, one of the 38 colleges of the University of Oxford. The library is one of the largest college libraries at the University of Oxford and has achieved 100% student satisfacti ...
, having left many books, papers and watercolours to
Somerville College, Oxford
Somerville College, a constituent college of the University of Oxford in England, was founded in 1879 as Somerville Hall, one of its first two women's colleges. Among its alumnae have been Margaret Thatcher, Indira Gandhi, Dorothy Hodgkin, Ir ...
, along with a small collection of Greek and Roman pots.
In popular culture
*In 2012, Edwards was portrayed as a non-singing character in
Stephen Medcalf's production of ''
Aida
''Aida'' (or ''Aïda'', ) is an opera in four acts by Giuseppe Verdi to an Italian libretto by Antonio Ghislanzoni. Set in the Old Kingdom of Egypt, it was commissioned by Cairo's Khedivial Opera House and had its première there on 24 December ...
'' at London's
Royal Albert Hall
The Royal Albert Hall is a concert hall on the northern edge of South Kensington, London. One of the UK's most treasured and distinctive buildings, it is held in trust for the nation and managed by a registered charity which receives no govern ...
. The opera opens with a Victorian "dig" among Egyptian tombs and the action unfolds as Edwards imagines the plot taking place based on her exploration of the site. The
libretto
A libretto (Italian for "booklet") is the text used in, or intended for, an extended musical work such as an opera, operetta, masque, oratorio, cantata or Musical theatre, musical. The term ''libretto'' is also sometimes used to refer to the t ...
was based on a scenario by the Egyptologist
Auguste Mariette, a contemporary of Edwards.
*The Egyptologist and novelist Elizabeth Peters (
Barbara Mertz
Barbara Louise Mertz (September 29, 1927 – August 8, 2013) was an American author who wrote under her own name as well as under the pseudonyms Elizabeth Peters and Barbara Michaels. In 1952, she received a PhD in Egyptology from the Univer ...
) named her character
Amelia Peabody
Amelia Peabody Emerson is the protagonist of the Amelia Peabody series, a series of historical mystery novels written by author Elizabeth Peters (a pseudonym of Egyptologist Barbara Mertz, 1927–2013). Peabody is married to Egyptologist Radcl ...
after Amelia Edwards.
*In 2014, a new music ensemble,
Alarm Will Sound
Alarm Will Sound is a 20-member chamber orchestra that focuses on recordings and performances of contemporary classical music. Its performances have been described as "equal parts exuberance, nonchalance, and virtuosity" by the ''Financial Times' ...
, staged a music-theatre piece, ''I Was Here I Was I'', based on Amelia Edwards's ''A Thousand Miles Up the Nile'', at the
Temple of Dendur
The Temple of Dendur (Dendoor in the 19th century) is a Roman Egyptian religious structure originally located in Tuzis (later Dendur), Nubia about south of modern Aswan. Around 23 BCE, Emperor Augustus commissioned the temple dedicated to the E ...
in the Metropolitan Museum of Arts' Sackler Wing. It was written and directed by
Nigel Maister Nigel Maister is the Russell and Ruth Peck Artistic Director of the University of Rochester's International Theater Program and has been the director of the theater program since 2002. In addition to his work in theater at the university, he is also ...
to music by
Kate Soper
Kate Soper (born 1943) is a British philosopher. She is currently Visiting Professor at the University of Brighton.http://arts.brighton.ac.uk/staff/kate-soper
Background
Soper was educated at the University of Oxford (BA) and worked as a trans ...
.
*A one-woman show based on Edwards's life, ''Hers Was the Earth'', by
Kim Hicks, was performed at the Petrie Museum during the 2011 International Women's Day observances.
Bibliography
History and archaeology
*''A Summary of English History: from the Roman Conquest to the present time'', 1856
*''Outlines of English history: from the Roman conquest to the present time: with observations on the progress of art, science and civilization and questions adapted to each paragraph: for the use of schools'', c. 1857
*''The History of France; from the Conquest of Gaul by the Romans to the Peace of 1856'', 1858
*''The Story of Cervantes, etc.'', 1862
*''A Thousand Miles Up the Nile'' London: George Routledge and Sons Ltd, 1877 (1st edition) and 1890 (2nd edition, )
*''Pharaohs, Fellahs and Explorers''. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1891
Novels
*''My Brother's Wife. A life–history'', 1855
*''The Ladder of Life. A heart history'', 1857
*''The Young Marquis, or, a story from a Reign'', c. 1857
*''The Eleventh of March. (From a pocket-book of forty years ago)'', 1863
*''No Hero: an Autobiography'', 1863
*''Barbara's History'', 1864
*''Hand and Glove. A tale'', 1865
*''Miss Carew'' (short stories), 1865
*''Half a Million of Money'', c. 1868
*''Debenham's Vow'', 1870
*''Monsieur Maurice and other stories'', 1873; contains the stories:
:*"Monsieur Maurice"
:*"An Engineer's Story"
:*"The Cabaret of the Break of Day"
:*"The Story of Ernst Christian Schoeffer"
:*"The New Pass"
:*"A Service of Danger"
:*"A Night on the Borders of the Black Forest"
:*"The Story of Salome"
:*"In the Confessional"
:*"The Tragedy in the Palazzo Bardell"
:*"The Four Fifteen Express"
:*"Sister Johanna's Story"
:*"All Saints' Eve"
*''In the Days of My Youth'', 1873
*''Lord Brackenbury'', 1880
*''The Phantom Coach'', by Amelia B. Edwards, adapted by I. M. Richardson, illustrated by Hal Ashmead, c. 1982
Poetry
*''Ballads''. London: Tinsley, 1865
*''A Poetry-book of Elder Poets, consisting of songs & sonnets, odes & lyrics, selected and arranged, with notes, from the works of the elder English poets, dating from the beginning of the fourteenth century to the middle of the eighteenth century''. 1878
Translations
*''Manual of Egyptian Archaeology and Guide to the Study of Antiquities in Egypt: for the use of students and travellers'' by Sir G. Maspero, translated by Amelia B. Edwards
Travel
*''Sights and Stories: being some account of a Holiday Tour through the north of Belgium'', 1862
*''A Thousand Miles up the Nile'', 1877
*''Untrodden Peaks and Unfrequented Valleys: A Midsummer Ramble in the Dolomites''. London: Longman's, Green and Co., 1873
Source
Catalogue of the British Library
See also
*
Mary Brodrick
Mary (May) Brodrick (5 April 1858 – 13 July 1933) was a British archaeologist and Egyptologist who was one of the first female excavators in Egypt. She persisted in her studies despite the initial opposition of her tutors and fellow students ...
Biographies
*Deborah Manley, (2015) ''Oxford Dictionary of National Biography'' entry.
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