EDWARDS, AMELIA (1831-1892), English author and Egyptologist, born in London. She wrote novels, the most suc cessful of which were Debenham's Vow (1870) and Lord Bracken bury (188o). After her visit to Egypt in 1873 she devoted herself to Egyptology. Convinced that only proper scientific research could preserve the antiquities of Egypt, she helped to form the Egypt Exploration Fund. She published in 18Z7 A Thousand Miles Up the Nile, and in 1891 Pharaohs, F'ellahs and Explorers, the sub stance of lectures delivered in America the previous year. She died in Weston-super-Mare, leaving her collections to University col lege, London, and endowing a chair of Egyptology.
See K. S. Macquoid, Julia Kavanagh, Amelia Blandford Edwards