This event will celebrate the launch of Amelia B Edwards: The ‘Queen of Egyptology’ (RRP £9.95) in the presence of the Society’s oil painting of its founder, currently on display in Bolton Museum. The evening will include a special viewing of the Egyptian Galleries as well as the latest exhibition, ‘In the Temple of the Female Pharaoh: Hatshepsut and Howard Carter’, and brief speeches by Prof Joann Fletcher (University of York, and Lead EES Local Ambassador), Ian Trumble (Curator of Egyptology, Bolton Museum), and Dr Carl Graves (Director of the EES and author of the latest Spotlight volume).
Celebrate Amelia’s legacy by joining us for this historic moment.
Speakers
About the book
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?
