Amelia B. Edwards (1831–1892)
Auteur de A Thousand Miles up the Nile
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Œuvres de Amelia B. Edwards
The Collected Supernatural and Weird Fiction of Amelia B. Edwards: Contains Two Novelettes 'Monsieur Maurice'… (2009) 10 exemplaires
Winter Ghosts: Classic Ghost Stories for Christmas (Black Heath Gothic, Sensation and Supernatural) (2014) 9 exemplaires
A summary of English history, from the Roman conquest to the present time with observations on the progress of art,… (1859) 4 exemplaires
Lord Brackenbury 4 exemplaires
How The Third Floor Knew The Potteries 2 exemplaires
A Thousand Miles Up the Nile, Vol. 1 (Classic Reprint) 2 exemplaires
Debenham's vow 2 exemplaires
Half a million of money. A novel 1 exemplaire
Miss Carew 1 exemplaire
My brother's wife 1 exemplaire
Monsieur Maurice, Five Victorian Ghost Novels 1 exemplaire
Works of Amelia Edwards 1 exemplaire
A Lady's Captivity Among Chinese Pirates 1 exemplaire
The New Pass (in Classic Ghost Stories - GRAFTON) 1 exemplaire
My Brother's Ghost Story 1 exemplaire
The Engineer 1 exemplaire
An Engineer's Story 1 exemplaire
Short Ghost and Horror Collection 067 1 exemplaire
Oeuvres associées
Victorian Tales of Mystery and Detection: An Oxford Anthology (1991) — Contributeur — 173 exemplaires
The Penguin Book of Ghost Stories: From Elizabeth Gaskell to Ambrose Bierce (2010) — Contributeur — 146 exemplaires
Delphi Complete Works of Charles Dickens (Illustrated) (2011) — Contributeur, quelques éditions — 77 exemplaires
The Phantom Coach: A Connoisseur's Collection of Victorian Ghost Stories (The Connoisseur's Collections) (1900) — Contributeur — 57 exemplaires
The Lifted Veil: The Book of Fantastic Literature by Women 1800-World War II (1806) — Contributeur — 42 exemplaires
More Deadly than the Male: Masterpieces from the Queens of Horror (2019) — Contributeur — 30 exemplaires
The Valancourt Book of Victorian Christmas Ghost Stories, Volume Five (2021) — Contributeur — 29 exemplaires
The Gentlewomen of Evil: An Anthology of Rare Supernatural Stories from the Pens of Victorian Ladies, (1967) — Contributeur — 28 exemplaires
Voices from the Vaults: Authentic Tales of Vampires and Ghosts (1987) — Contributeur — 24 exemplaires
Masters of the Macabre: An Anthology of Mystery, Horror, and Detection (1975) — Contributeur — 13 exemplaires
Dead Drunk: Tales of Intoxication and Demon Drinks: 41 (British Library Tales of the Weird) (2023) — Contributeur — 7 exemplaires
Roads of Destiny: And Other Tales of Alternative Histories and Parallel Realms: 43 (British Library Tales of the Weird) (2023) — Contributeur — 5 exemplaires
Murder by gaslight, Victorian tales — Contributeur — 3 exemplaires
Travel & Adventure: The Pocket Library of Classic Short Stories (2012) — Contributeur — 2 exemplaires
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Partage des connaissances
- Nom légal
- Edwards, Amelia Ann Blanford
- Date de naissance
- 1831-06-07
- Date de décès
- 1892-04-15
- Lieu de sépulture
- St Mary's Church, Henbury, Bristol, England, UK
- Sexe
- female
- Nationalité
- UK
- Lieu de naissance
- London, England, UK
- Lieu du décès
- Weston-super-Mare, Somerset, England, UK
- Lieux de résidence
- Westbury-on-Trym, Bristol, England, UK
- Études
- at home
- Professions
- journalist
novelist
Egyptologist
Travel Writer
short story writer
ghost story writer - Relations
- Betham-Edwards, Matilda (cousin)
- Organisations
- Egypt Exploration Society (co-founder, 1882)
Edwards Chair of Egyptology, University College London (bequest) - Courte biographie
- Amelia B. Edwards was born in London and educated at home by her mother. She began to write at a young age, publishing her first poem at age 7 and her first story at 12. She went on to publish a variety of poetry, stories, and articles in a large number of British magazines and newspapers. She published her first novel, My Brother's Wife, in 1855, but it was Barbara's History (1864), a novel about bigamy, that made her famous. She also wrote ghost stories, including the often-anthologized "The Phantom Coach" (1864). In the winter of 1873–74, accompanied by several friends, Edwards visited Egypt, where she developed a fascination with the country and its cultures, both ancient and modern. After returning home, she wrote a travelogue with hand-drawn illustrations called A Thousand Miles up the Nile (1877), which became an immediate bestseller. Edwards now became a devoted advocate for research and preservation of the ancient Egyptian monuments and, in 1882, co-founded the Egypt Exploration Fund (now the Egypt Exploration Society) with Reginald Stuart Poole of the British Museum. Following the publication of her hit novel, Lord Brackenbury (1880), she abandoned her other literary work to concentrate solely on Egyptology. Edwards contributed entries to the 9th edition of the Encyclopædia Britannica, to the American supplement of that work, and to the Standard Dictionary. She went on a lecture tour of the USA in 1889–90, and these lectures were later published under the title Pharaohs, Fellahs, and Explorers (1891). On her death, Edwards bequeathed her valuable collection of Egyptian antiquities and her library to University College London, together with a sum of £2,500 to found an Edwards Chair of Egyptology.
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Statistiques
- Œuvres
- 47
- Aussi par
- 58
- Membres
- 604
- Popularité
- #41,611
- Évaluation
- 3.8
- Critiques
- 14
- ISBN
- 105
- Langues
- 6
- Favoris
- 1
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