Amelia Edwards (1831-1892) British

Images of Orientalism (images from http://web.ukonline.co.uk/gavin.egypt/)

Edward Said's 1978 seminal work Orientalism includes definitions of individuals who wrote and worked in the Orient (here meaning the Middle East) and how their perspectives toward the "Other" shaped Western thought about Islam and the cultures that differed from the Imperial world of Europe.

    Up the Pyramids

    Excavating for Mummies

1873 Edwards boards a Dahibeeya for a Nile Cruise.

(from http://www.rowfant.demon.co.uk/ameliaedward.htm 9/24/01)

A Thousand Miles up the Nile (1877)

Pharaohs, Fellahs and Explorers (1891)

Founder of Egypt Exploration Fund (Society) -current web site

Patron of Sir William Flinders Petrie

Gravestone for Edwards

Kate Furphy for the Westbury-under-Trym churchyard photograph from (from http://www.rowfant.demon.co.uk/ameliaedward.htm 9/24/01)

Short Stories by Amelia Edwards at Gaslight

Bibliography

Joan Rees, Amelia Edwards, Traveller, Novelist & Egyptologist (London: Rubicon Press, 1998); idem, Writings on the Nile : Harriet Martineau, Florence Nightingale, Amelia Edwards (London: Rubicon Press, 1995).