An English novelist, journalist, traveller and Egyptologist. Her most successful literary works included the ghost story "The Phantom Coach" (1864),the novels Barbara's History (1864) and Lord Brackenbury (1880),and the Egyptian travelogue A Thousand Miles up the Nile (1877),which described her 1873–1874 voyage up the Nile River. In 1882, she co-founded the Egypt Exploration Fund (now the Egypt Exploration Society) and became its joint Honorary Secretary. In 1889–1890, she toured the United States lecturing on Egyptian exploration.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amelia_Edwards
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