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Twenty tales from beyond the veil from a mistress of the strange
and other worldly
It is widely held that many of the finest writers of the classic
ghostly and macabre story were women. Some would propose that this
remains true among modern exponents of the craft. It was certainly
true of Amelia Edwards whose collection of otherworldly fiction is
highly regarded and extensive, notwithstanding her many other
talents. It is interesting that Edwards came into contact with
another famous ghost story writer, Charles Dickens, as a
consequence of providing articles, poetry and stories for his
magazine, Household Words. Whether by coincidence or design
Edwards' literary style was so similar to Dickens' as to cause
confusion as to the identity of the actual author of some stories.
Whilst this will please Dickens aficionados, Edwards own work
stands on its own merits as a fine collection of Victorian gothic
tales. In later life Edwards became an Egyptologist and was
responsible for the preservation of many priceless monuments and
artefacts. Available in soft cover and hard cover with dust jacket.
Leonaur hard covers make fine collectors editions featuring real
cloth bindings, taped head and tail bands and gold foil lettering
upon their spines.
Of all those admirable and doughty Victorian lady-travellers Miss
Amelia Edwards is surely one of the brightest lights, and this, her
classic introduction to ancient Egypt, still stands up like an
obelisk above the bulk of learned tomes and endlessly churned out
travel guides. Straightened means obliged her to earn her living,
and she was already a successful writer and a talented artist and
musician when, in middle-age, bad weather unexpectedly changed her
life. Her painting holiday in France sabotaged, she took a boat
from Marseilles to Alexandria, and hired a dahabiyah to venture up
the Nile. The rest of her life she devoted tirelessly to the
setting-up of professional excavation in Egypt, founding the Egypt
Exploration Fund (with Reginald Stuart Poole) and establishing the
first chair of Egyptology in England at University College,
initially occupied by her protege Flinders Petrie. Nothing of the
contagious enthusiasm and wonder she conveys, as the beauties of
Egypt are daily unfolded before her, is lost from the subsequent
research and painstaking erudition she crams into these pages. The
joy is as fresh as when first felt, and the reader feels privileged
to share these experiences with her.
“This is the most important of my books, and the one by which I
most hope to be remembered – if I may hope to be remembered at
all!” Amelia B Edwards, 1877. A chance visit to Egypt in 1873 by
Amelia Edwards changed the future of British Egyptology forever.
Her travelogue, A Thousand Miles up the Nile, would inspire
generations to take up her cause to support and promote Egyptian
cultural heritage. This modern reprint is accompanied by a new
introduction by Carl Graves (the Egypt Exploration Society) and
Anna Garnett (The Petrie Museum, UCL) reflecting on Amelia’s life
and its legacy in Egyptology today. The original text is
complimented by colour images of Amelia’s artwork made during or
shortly after her travels, which have only previously been
reproduced as black and white engravings. This is no ordinary
reprint, but an essential companion to the best-seller.
'If modern Egypt is so far away that it takes three weeks to get
there, ancient Egypt is infinitely more distant.' So wrote
novelist, journalist, traveller and Egyptologist Amelia Edwards
(1831-92) in this, the last published work of her career. Having
first travelled to Egypt in 1873, in 1889-90 Edwards was invited to
lecture in the United States, campaigning for the Egypt Exploration
Fund, of which she was joint honorary secretary. In five months she
addressed 100,000 people at over 110 meetings in sixteen states.
First published in 1892, a month before her death, this book is a
collection of her lectures, containing substantial illustrations,
additions, notes, and references. Exhibiting both Edwards' ability
to make abstruse subjects come alive without losing factual
correctness, and the humour and enthusiasm with which she recounted
her experiences, this book marks the culmination of twenty years'
research and exploration.
Amelia Edwards' English translation of the Manual of Egyptian
Archaeology by the renowned French Egyptologist Gaston Camille
Charles Maspero (1846 1916) was originally published in 1887. The
fifth edition reissued here appeared in 1902, ten years after
Edwards' death, under the auspices of Maspero. Edwards' translation
was important for generating public interest in Egyptology in
Britain. It is a classic work of popular Egyptology that has served
for years as an indispensable guide for students, amateur
enthusiasts and professionals, and was long relied upon by British
tourists visiting Egypt's ancient sites. The book contains chapters
on civil and military architecture, religious architecture, ancient
tombs, Egyptian painting and sculpture, and industrial art. There
are detailed sections on the various materials used including
stone, clay, glass, wood, ivory, leather, textile fabrics, iron,
lead, and bronze. The volume is beautifully illustrated with over
300 engravings.
What had become of him? And what lad was that going up the path by
which I had just come-that tall lad, half-running, half-walking,
with a fishing-rod over his shoulder? I could have taken my oath
that I had neither met nor passed him. Where then had he come from?
And where was the man to whom I had spoken not three seconds ago,
and who, at his limping pace, could not have made more than a
couple of yards in the time?.My stupefaction was such that I stood
quite still, looking after the lad with the fishing-rod till he
disappeared in the gloom under the park-palings.
This Is A New Release Of The Original 1891 Edition.
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