Edwards, Amelia Ann Blanford (1831 - 1892)
| Short name | Edwards, Amelia Ann Blanford |
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| VIAF | http://viaf.org/viaf/66510711/ |
| 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 |
| Flourishing | - |
| Sex | Female |
| Place of birth | - |
| Place of death | - |
| Lived in | England |
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| Education | Educated at home |
| Aristocratic title | - |
| Professional or ecclesiastical title | - |
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Edwards, Amelia Ann Blanford was ...
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| Memberships | Egypt Exploration Fund |
| Place(s) of Residence | England |
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Receptions of Edwards, Amelia Ann Blanford, the person (for receptions of her works, see under each individual Work)
| Title | Author | Date | Type |
| Unknown maker, portrait of Amelia B Edwards, in her book "PHARAOHS, FELLAHS AND EXPLORERS", ARPER & BROTHERS, NEW YORK 1891 | 1891 | is portrait of | |
| Hilda van Suylenburg | Jong van Beek en Donk, Cecile de | 1897 | None |
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