Amelia Edwards: Traveller, Novelist & Egyptologist
- ISBN-10
- 0948695617
- ISBN-13
- 9780948695612
- Category
- Biography & Autobiography / General
- Pages
- 112
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1998
- Publisher
- Rubicon Press
- Author
- Joan Rees
Description
This, the first biography of Amelia Edwards, sets out her work as the founder of the Egypt Exploration Society and writer of A Thousand Miles up the Nile in the context of her previous career as novelist and journalist. It traces her development from a multi-gifted child to an adventurous and unconventional woman and finally to her life as a dedicated and reclusive worker in the cause of exploring and safeguarding the antiquities of Egypt.
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