Margaret C. Jones

The Adventurous Life of Amelia B. Edwards (eBook, PDF)

Egyptologist, Novelist, Activist

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

In Victorian England, Amelia B. Edwards was an iconic cultural figure, admired by Trollope and Browning for her best-selling fiction and by the wider public for her witty, thought-provoking travel writing. In later life, she became a celebrated historian, bringing fresh understanding of the world of Ancient Egypt to a fascinated public and founding the Egyptian Exploration Fund (Society).
This new biography uses previously overlooked sources to tell the story of her fascinating and unconventional life - her travels, travails and feminist activism - as well as touching on her occasionally problematic views on race. In appreciation of a figure ahead of her time, it examines her involvement in suffrage and animal rights societies as well as revealing new insights into Edwards' loving same-sex relationships with Ellen Rice Byrne and Lucy Renshaw. In doing so, it reveals a versatile, creative, witty, independent woman, and a true pioneer of her time.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury UK
• Seitenzahl: 240
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. Juli 2022
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781350293991
• Artikelnr.: 63685809

Autorenporträt

Margaret C. Jones was Senior Lecturer at the Department of English, University of the West of England, UK. She is now a writer, primarily of feminist biographies such as Founder, Fighter, Saxon Queen: Aethelflaed, Lady of the Mercians and Heretics and Hellraisers: Women of The Masses.

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter 1. Young AmeliaChapter 2. Love - and The DolomitesChapter 3. The NileChapter 4. Inventing EgyptChapter 5. Founding the Fund Chapter 6. A Very Private LifeChapter 7. NovelistChapter 8. AmericaChapter 9. A Quiet ActivistChapter 10. ReputationBibliography

Rezensionen

Margaret Jones has admirably brought together the remarkable and varied threads of Amelia B Edwards' life in this greatly updated and carefully researched biography, a must-read for anyone interested in in this novelist, travel writer, and pioneer of British Egyptology! Carl Graves, Director of the Egypt Exploration Society