07 May 2025
by Carl Graves

Amelia B Edwards: The 'Queen of Egyptology'

In this book, Carl Graves explores the private life of EES founder Amelia B Edwards and unpacks her journey to founding the Egypt Exploration Fund (aka Society).

Cover for the book 'Amelia B Edwards: The 'Queen of Egyptology'' by Carl Graves.

To be published June 2025

Amelia Blanford Edwards was so much more than a pioneer of British Egyptology. She was a writer, musician, artist, activist, and explorer. She is remembered for different reasons, by different people, in different ways. This volume offers new revelations about Amelia’s private life and her relationships with women that led her, ultimately, to the founding of the Egypt Exploration Fund (now Society).

What circumstances in her life led Amelia Edwards to Egypt and what happened after her famous journey ‘A Thousand Miles Up the Nile’? To answer these questions, Carl Graves navigates Amelia’s complicated personal life, unpacking the events that surrounded the foundation of the Egypt Exploration Fund (now Society). Her legacy in Egyptology ends with the equally intriguing journey of an oil painting by Florence Blakiston Attwood-Mathews, now in the collection of the Society. But who really is the woman in the painting?

  • ISBN: 978-0-85698-268-2 (paperback); 978-0-85698-269-9 (eBook)
  • Published: June 2025
  • Size: 234 × 156 mm
  • Pages: TBC

Contents:

Foreword | Timeline of events in this volume | Map | Acknowledgements | Introduction | The Path to Egypt, 1831-1873 | Egypt: A Thousand Miles Up the Nile | Founding the Fund | Beyond Amelia | Epilogue 

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