Amelia Edwards
Sign in to saveAlso known as Amelia Ann Blanford Edwards, Amelia B. Edwards, Amelia (Ann) Blandford Edwards
English novelist, journalist, traveller and egyptologist (1831–1892)
Person · Open Library
- Works
- 17
Top works
- Mugby Junction by Charles Dickens : Being the Extra Christmas Number of All the Year Round, 1866. with a Frontispiece by A. Jules Goodman. London
- Monsieur Maurice
- In the Days of My Youth
- Night on the Borders of the Black Forest
- Lady's Captivity among Chinese Pirates in the Chinese Seas
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Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Male
- Origin
- United Kingdom
- Active from
- 1969-08-20
actordoctor whowarhammer
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Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 1
- Total plays
- 1
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Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- Relationship of Childhood Abuse and Household Dysfunction to Many of the Leading Causes of Death in Adults
· 1998 · cited 15,197x
- Astropy: A community Python package for astronomy
· 2013 · cited 13,560x
- Observation of Gravitational Waves from a Binary Black Hole Merger
· 2016 · cited 11,698x
- The RAST Server: Rapid Annotations using Subsystems Technology
· 2008 · cited 10,750x
- IntCal13 and Marine13 Radiocarbon Age Calibration Curves 0–50,000 Years cal BP
· 2013 · cited 9,542x
via Crossref · CC0
Quotes
- “Till the publication of 's Guide to the Eastern Alps in 1868, and the appearance of Messrs. Gilbert and Churchill's joint volume in 1864,—the was scarcely known even by name to any but scientific travellers. A few geologists found their way now and then to ; a few artists, attracted in the first instance to as the birthplace of , carried their sketch-books up the ; but there it ended.”
- “{{w|Jean-Jacques 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 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.”
- “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 , 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.”
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Ann
- Family name
- Edwards
- Gender
- female
- Citizenship
- United Kingdom
- Place of birth
- London
- Place of death
- Weston-super-Mare
- Occupation
- illustrator
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Field of work
- Egyptology
- Image
- Amelia B Edwards 1890 in Amerika.jpg
Show 11 more facts
- date of birth
- 1831-00-00
- date of death
- 1892-00-00
- medical condition
- 1889–1890 pandemic
- contributor to the creative work or subject
- Household Words
- Commons category
- Amelia Edwards
- birth name
- Amelia Ann Blandford Edwards
- member of
- Egypt Exploration Society
- cause of death
- influenza
- writing language
- English language
- manner of death
- natural causes
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Works in European collections
6 objects attributed to Amelia Edwards, held across European museums, libraries & archives · via Europeana
