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Amelia Edwards
This major figure in Egyptian archaeology was also a novelist, journalist, artist, erstwhile musician, and dauntless travel writer.
With exquisite modesty, Amelia Edwards wrote in 1891 in The Arena magazine: ‘I am essentially a worker, and a hard worker, and this I have been since my early girlhood.’ ‘Hard worker’ she indubitably was – in 1882, she contributed more than 100 articles to just The Academy magazine, and in a single year wrote 4,000 archaeological fundraising letters – but with ‘essentially’ we must quibble. This major figure in Egyptian archaeology was also a novelist, journalist, artist, erstwhile musician, and dauntless travel writer.
Amelia Edwards, photographed for her lecture tour of the United States in 1890.
Born in Islington, north London, she was already published by the age of
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