AMELIA BLANDFORD EDWARDS
\ɐmˈiːli͡ə blˈandfəd ˈɛdwədz], \ɐmˈiːliə blˈandfəd ˈɛdwədz], \ɐ_m_ˈiː_l_iə b_l_ˈa_n_d_f_ə_d ˈɛ_d_w_ə_d_z]\
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An English Egyptologist and writer of novels; born in London, 1831; died in Weston-super-Mare, Somersetshire, April 15, 1892. Her novels include: "My Brother's Wife" (1855); "Hand and Glove" (1859); and "In the Days of my Youth" (1873). Later, she achieved great celebrity through her writings and lectures on the antiquities of Egypt; her best-known works in this field are "A Thousand Miles up the Nile" (1877), and "Pharaohs, Fellahs, and Explorers" (1891).
By Charles Dudley Warner
