Amelia Edwards

Amelia Edwards Amelia Ann Blanford Edwards (7 June 1831 – 15 April 1892) an English novelist, journalist, author of ghost stories, editor, traveller and Egyptologist. In 1882, Amelia Edwards and Reginald Stuart Poole co-founded the Egypt Exploration Society Egypt Exploration Fund. She is sometimes called the "Godmother of Egyptology". Quotes Eager for conquest, and tempted by the rich pearls and tin mines for which the island was famous, but pretending only to punish the poor savages for having helped the Gauls, with whom he was at war, Julius Caesar came over from Italy with his ships and soldiers, plundered and killed in every direction round about Sandwich, Kent Sandwich, and made the first conquest of Britain. This happened just fifty-five years before Christ. Scarcely a hundred more had gone by when the Claudius Emperor Claudius came with fifty thousand men, and subdued it over again (a.d. 43). It was during the reign of this emperor that Caractacus, a patriot Briton, made the first effort to free his country from the Roman yoke. After nine years conflict he was taken prisoner ; but was afterwards released by the clemency of Claudius. Summary 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 1869 Toronto James Campbell & Son Campbell's British-American Series of School Guides https://archive.org/details/summaryofengwest00edwa 9–10 Till the publication of John Ball (naturalist) Ball's Guide to the Eastern Alps in 1868, and the appearance of Messrs. Gilbert and Churchill's joint volume in 1864,—the Dolomites Dolomite district was scarcely known even by name to any but scientific travellers. A few geologists found their way now and then to Predazzo ; a few artists, attracted in the first instance to Cadore as the birthplace of Titian, carried their sketch-books up the Cortina d'Ampezzo Ampezzo Thal ; but there it ended. Untrodden Peaks and Unfrequented Valleys: A Midsummer Ramble in the Dolomites 2nd George Routledge & Sons 1893 Preface to the First Edition (1873) ix–xvi https://books.google.com/books/about/Untrodden_Peaks_and_Unfrequented_Valleys.html?id=5lwbAAAAYAAJ (quote from p. ix) Jean-Jacques Ampère Ampère has put Egypt in an epigram. " A donkey-ride and a boating-trip interspersed with ruins " does, in fact, sum up in a single line the whole experience of the Nile traveller. Àpropops of these three things—the donkey, the boat, and the ruins—it may be said that a good English saddle and a comfortable Dahabeeyah add very considerably to the pleasure of the journey; and that the more one knows about the past history of the country, the more one enjoys the ruins. A Thousand Miles Up the Nile Volume 1 of 2 London Longmans, Green & Company 1877 Preface https://books.google.com/books/about/A_Thousand_Miles_Up_the_Nile.html?id=j3IPAAAAYAAJ&pg=PR5 v–xxvi (quote from p. v) Our knowledge of how men lived and thought in the Valley of the Nile five or six thousand years before the Christian era is ever on the increase. It keeps pace with the march of Egyptology#Modern Egyptology discovery, and that march extends every year over a wider area. Each season beholds the exploration of new sites, and each explorer has some new thing to tell. Pharaohs, Fellahs and Explorers 1892 https://books.google.com/books?id=zt9JLCDBWpwC&pg=PA3 London James R. Osgood, McIlvaine & Company 3–4 (1st edition 1891, Harper & Brothers, New York) External links Amelia Ann Branford Edwards (1831 - 1892) LibriVox https://librivox.org/author/1187?primary_key=1187&search_category=author&search_page=1&search_form=get_results&search_order=alpha Amelia Edwards at Olana and the Birth of Egyptian Archaeology The Olana Partnership, YouTube April 13, 2022 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ql2Vmc7fqs Thousand Miles Up the Nile With Amelia B Edwards by David and Jill Pepper 4-17-2021 June 4, 2021 Egyptian Study Society, YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uORoS74j2YI Category:1831 births Category:1892 deaths Category:Archaeologists from England Category:Non-fiction authors from England Category:Novelists from England Category:People from London Category:Short story writers from England Category:Victorian novelists Category:Women authors from England Category:Women born in the 19th century