ABE
founded the Egypt Exploration Fund
(later the Egypt Exploration Society) in Britain, of which she was elected joint Honorary Secretary with R. S. Poole
(who resigned in 1886).
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Todd, Janet, editor. Dictionary of British Women Writers. Routledge, 1989.
Kirk, John Foster, and S. Austin Allibone, editors. A Supplement to Allibone’s Critical Dictionary of English Literature and British and American Authors. J. B. Lippincott, 1891, 2 vols.
Publishing
Amelia B. Edwards
When she included the texts of other American lectures in Pharaohs, Fellahs and Explorers, ABE
gave only an excerpt from this one. Her modern editor, Patricia O'Neill
, speculates that she saw herself as...
