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Edwards, Amelia Ann Blanford

Also known as: Amelia B. Edwards, Amelia Ann Blandford Edwards

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Amelia Ann Blanford Edwards (7 June 1831 – 15 April 1892), also known as Amelia B. Edwards, was an English novelist, journalist, traveller and Egyptologist. Her literary successes included the ghost story The Phantom Coach (1864), the novels Barbara's History (1864) and Lord Brackenbury (1880), and the travelogue of Egypt A Thousand Miles up the Nile (1877). She also edited a poetry anthology published in 1878. In 1882, she co-founded the Egypt Exploration Fund. She gained the nickname "Godmother of Egyptology" for her contribution. -Wikipedia

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IT may be said of some very old places, as of some very old books, that they are destined to be forever new.

— from Pharaohs, Fellahs and Explorers (Kegan Paul Library of Ancient Egypt)

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Teig O'Kane and the corpse -- The ghost of fear / H.G. Wells -- The screaming skull / F. Marion Crawford -- Canon Alberic's scrap-book / M.R. James -- A true story / Benjamin Disraeli -- The phantom 'rickshaw / Rudyard Kipling -- The lagoon / Joseph Conrad -- On the water / Guy de Maupassant -- The captain's story / Rebecca Harding Davis -- The erl-king / Goethe -- The body-snatcher/ Robert Louis Stevenson -- The phantom coach / Amelia B. Edwards -- Ligeia / Edgar Allan Poe -- The legend of Macarger's gulch / Ambrose Bierce -- The old nurse's story / Elizabeth Gaskell -- August heat / W.F. Harvey -- How he left the hotel / Louisa Baldwin -- The man who went too far / E.F. Benson -- The hall bedroom/ Mary E. Wilkins -- The toll-house / W.W. Jacobs.

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