Amelia Blandford Edwards (Q878)

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  • Amelia B. Edwards
  • Miss A. B. Edwards
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Amelia Blandford Edwards
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  • Amelia B. Edwards
  • Miss A. B. Edwards

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instance of
human
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assigned gender
woman
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resided at
Westbury-on-Trym
street address (free text)
The Larches, Westbury-on-Trym, Bristol (British English)
point in time
1886
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stated in
Members List
specific reference information (free text)
Egypt Exploration Fund-report Of 5th Annual General Meeting And Balance Sheet (British English)
family name at birth
Edwards (English)
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was member of
Society for the Protection of Ancient Buildings
point in time
1887
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stated in
Members List
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Annual Reports Of The Soc. For The Protection Of Ancient Buildings London 1888-1892 (English)
International Congress of Orientalists
point in time
1883
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stated in
Members List
specific reference information (free text)
ACTES DU SIXIEME CONGRES INTERNATIONAL DES ORIENTALISTES (1883) (English)
British Museum Reading Room
start time
3 June 1875Gregorian
1 reference
specific reference information (free text)
Susan Bernstein, Appendix: Notable Readers, Roomscape: Women Writers in the British Museum from George Eliot to Virginia Woolf (2013) (English)
held position
Honorary Secretary
of
Egypt Exploration Fund
point in time
1886
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stated in
Members List
specific reference information (free text)
Egypt Exploration Fund-report Of 5th Annual General Meeting And Balance Sheet (British English)
Vice President
of
Bristol and the West of England Society for Women's Suffrage
point in time
1890
instance of
suffrage activity
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stated in
Members List
specific reference information (free text)
Report of the Bristol and the West of England Society for Women's Suffrage 1890 (British English)
served on
Council
of
World's Congress Auxiliary
specific role
Member of the Women's General Advisory Council on Literary Congresses (English)
1 reference
specific reference information (free text)
World's Congress Auxiliary, Department of Literature, Division of Philology. Programme of a Congress of Philogists 1893, reprinted in Progress (1895) (English)
committee
of
National Society for Women's Suffrage
point in time
1889
specific role
Member of General Committee (English)
instance of
suffrage activity
1 reference
specific reference information (free text)
Annual Report of the National Society for Women's Suffrage 1889 [Digitised via LSE Library] (English)
spoke at
meeting
of
Kendal Literary and Scientific Institution
point in time
November 1888Gregorian
title of paper
The Buried Cities of Ancient Egypt (English)
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specific reference information (free text)
Soulby's Ulverston Advertiser and General Intelligencer, ‘The Buried Cities of Egypt’, 15 Nov 1888 p 7 (English)
Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences
point in time
10 March 1890Gregorian
title of paper
The Literature and Religion of Ancient Egypt (English)
note
Lecture given as part of Edwards' lecture tour in Eastern and Central US to promote and raise money for the Egypt Exploration Fund between November 1889 and March 1890 (English)
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Roberta Munoz, Amelia Edwards in America: A Quiet Revolution in Archaeological science, Bulletin of the history of archaeology 27 (1) 2017 (English)
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Men and Women of Our Time (1891) (English)
corresponded with
Cecil Harcourt Smith
sourcing circumstances
presumably
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specific reference information (free text)
Department of Greece and Rome Original Letters Original Letters 1886-7 (English)
stated in
British Museum archive
contributed to
goal
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In 1884 Edwards was one of many signatories on a "Letter from Ladies to Members of Parliament" asking for women householders to be included in the franchise. (English)
point in time
1884
instance of
suffrage activity
1 reference
specific reference information (free text)
Women's Suffrage Journal, 2 June 1884, p 125 [online via LSE Digital Library] (English)
Declaration in Favour of Women's Suffrage, 1889
point in time
1889
instance of
suffrage activity
note
signature under "Literature" (English)
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specific reference information (free text)
Publications of the Central Committee of the National Society for Women's Suffrage, 1889-1893 [via LSE Digital Library] (English)
Encyclopedia Britannica
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Egyptology articles for 9th Edition (English)
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Men and Women of Our Time (1891) (English)
founded
Egypt Exploration Fund
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specific reference information (free text)
Brenda Moon, 2006, More Usefully Employed: Amelia B. Edwards, writer, traveller and campaigner for ancient Egypt (Egypt Exploration Society) (English)
work(s) published in
The Academy
point in time
12 August 1883Gregorian
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specific reference information (free text)
Men and Women of Our Time (1891) (English)
Knowledge & Illustrated Magazine of Science
point in time
19 January 1883Gregorian
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Biblia
point in time
December 1891Gregorian
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Sunday School Times
point in time
23 April 1887Gregorian
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donor to
Petrie Museum of Egyptian and Sudanese Archaeology
note
Edwards' collection is the foundation collection of the Petrie Museum (British English)
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specific reference information (free text)
Alice Stephenson (Ed), 2015. The Petrie Museum of Egyptology: Characters and Collections (UCL Press) (English)
Museum of Fine Art
described at URL
https://collections.mfa.org/objects/72520/fragment-of-a-garment?ctx=f75db62f-082f-427d-ae41-672cb4974ea5&idx=9
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collections held at
Somerville College
described at URL
https://www.some.ox.ac.uk/news/somerville-college-updates-the-amelia-edwards-collection/
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date of birth
7 June 1831Gregorian
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date of death
15 April 1892Gregorian
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archives at
Griffith Institute
described at URL
https://archive.griffith.ox.ac.uk/index.php/amelia-edwards-collection
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Somerville College
described at URL
https://www.some.ox.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/ABE-Catalogue.pdf
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Archaeology Data Service person ID
50201
described at URL
https://archaeologydataservice.ac.uk/library/browse/personDetails.xhtml?personId=50201
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ISNI ID
0000000110285474
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Wikidata ID
Q437356
described at URL
https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q437356
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WorldCat Identities ID
lccn-n81129633
described at URL
http://www.worldcat.org/identities/lccn-n81129633/
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