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Edwards, Amelia Ann Blanford (1831-1892)
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Amelia B. Edwards; Miss Edwards; Amelia Amy Blanford (or Blandford) Edwards; A. B. E.
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novelist, pianist, poet, journalist, travel writer, Egyptologist, periodical contributor, SF writer, biographer, children's writer, critic, translator (French), composer
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English; born in Islington, London; her first publication was at age 7 [Onslow]
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daughter of Alicia Walpole & Thomas Edwards; cousin of Matilda Betham-Edwards
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Egypt Exploration Fund; Morning Post; Eliza Cooke's Journal; Household Words; All the Year Round; Academy
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- Trowelblazers: Women in Archaeology, Geology, and Palaeontology. © 2021 TrowelBlazers (https://trowelblazers.com/)
- Unsuitable for Ladies: An Anthology of Women Travellers. Jane Robinson, ed. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2001.
- Onslow, Barbara. Women of the Press in Nineteenth-Century Britain. Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire: Macmillan, 2000.
- Mapping Victorian Literary Sociability. University of Calgary (https://victorians.ucalgary.ca/)
- Women, Travel Writing, and Truth. Clare Broome Saunders, ed. New York: Routledge, 2014.
- Mullen, Richard; James Munson. 'The Smell of the Continent': The British Discover Europe 1814-1914. London: Macmillan, 2009.
- McVicker, Mary F. Women Adventurers, 1750-1900: A Biographical Dictionary, with Excerpts from Selected Travel Writings. Jefferson, NC: McFarland & Company, Inc., 2008.
- The Internet Speculative Fiction Database (www.isfdb.org)
- Dickens Journals Online (http://www.djo.org.uk/)
- Dictionary of Literary Biography
- The Encyclopedia of British Women Writers, 1998 revised & expanded edition.
- Bassett, Troy J. At the Circulating Library: A Database of Victorian Fiction, 1837-1901. © 2022 Troy J. Bassett (http://www.victorianresearch.org/atcl/)
- The Wellesley Index to Victorian Periodicals, 1824-1900 (http://wellesley.chadwyck.com/marketing/index.jsp)
- Orlando: Women's Writing in the British Isles from the Beginnings to the Present (http://orlando.cambridge.org/)
- Blain, Virginia; Clements, Patricia; Grundy, Isobel. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1990.
- Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. © Oxford University Press
- Theakstone, John. Victorian & Edwardian Women Travellers: A Bibliography of Books Published in English. Mansfield Centre, Conn.: Martino, 2006.
- Library of Congress Authorities (https://authorities.loc.gov/)
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• wrote Monsieur Maurice A Summary of English History My Brother's Wife The Young Marquis Sights and Stories The Story of Cervantes A Thousand Miles Up the Nile Pharaohs, Fellahs, and Explorers • translated A Lady's Captivity among Chinese Pirates