Amelia B. Edwards: A trailblazing writer and sketcher who became the ‘Godmother of Egyptology’

Gebel Aboofayda, Egypt, 1874, watercolor

In the late 1800s, English novelist and journalist Amelia B. Edwards (1831-1892) traveled up the Nile River with six other remarkable, Victorian-era women. From her journal writing and on-the-spot sketches, she published a book, “A Thousand Miles up the Nile” (1877), that would change not only her path in life but…