Remembering Amelia Edwards this Pride Month

Title: Remembering Amelia Edwards this Pride Month
Description: This year the EES celebrated Pride by remembering their founder, Amelia B Edwards. Amelia was a Victorian novelist, travel writer, and pioneer of British Egyptology, but her personal life and relations with other women have often been ignored by the field she founded.
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Contributor: The Egypt Exploration Society
Type: Blog
Date: 2025
Subject: LGBTQ+ History; Archaeology
Period: 18th-19th Century; Ancient
Geographical Area: Britain and Ireland; Africa