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EDWARDS, AMELIA See also:ANN See also:BLANDFORD (1831-1892) , See also:English author and Egyptologist, the daughter of one of See also:Wellington's See also:officers, was See also:born in See also:London on the 7th of See also:June 1831. At a very See also:early See also:age she displayed considerable See also:literary and See also:artistic See also:talent. She became a contributor to various magazines and See also:newspapers, and besides many See also:miscellaneous See also:works she wrote eight novels, the most successful of which were Debenham's See also:Vow (187o) and See also:Lord Brackenbury (188o). In the See also:winter of 1873–1874 she visited See also:Egypt, and was profoundly impressed by the new openings for archaeological See also:research. She learnt the hieroglyphic characters, and made a considerable collection of See also:Egyptian antiquities. In 1877 she published A Thousand See also:Miles up the See also:Nile, with illustrations by herself. Convinced that only by proper scientific investigations could the wholesale destruction of Egyptian antiquities be avoided, she devoted herself to arousing public See also:opinion on the subject, and ultimately, in 1882, was largely instrumental in See also:founding the Egypt Exploration Fund, of which she became See also:joint honorary secretary with Reginald See also:Stuart See also:Poole. For the business of this Fund she' abandoned her other literary See also:work, See also:writing only on Egyptology. In 1889-1890 she went on a lecturing tour in the See also:United States. The substance of her lectures was published in See also:volume See also:form in 1891 as Pharaohs, Fellahs, and Explorers. She died at See also:Weston-super-See also:Mare, See also:Somerset, on the 15th of See also:April 1892, bequeathing her valuable collection of Egyptian antiquities to University See also:College, London, together with a sum to found a See also:chair of Egyptology. See also:Miss Edwards received, shortly before her See also:death, a See also:civil See also:list See also:pension from the See also:British See also:government.

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