Amelia B. Edwards (1831–1892)
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Werke von Amelia B. Edwards
The Collected Supernatural and Weird Fiction of Amelia B. Edwards: Contains Two Novelettes 'Monsieur Maurice'… (2009) 10 Exemplare
Winter Ghosts: Classic Ghost Stories for Christmas (Black Heath Gothic, Sensation and Supernatural) (2014) 9 Exemplare
A summary of English history, from the Roman conquest to the present time with observations on the progress of art,… (1859) 4 Exemplare
Lord Brackenbury 4 Exemplare
How The Third Floor Knew The Potteries 2 Exemplare
Debenham's vow 2 Exemplare
Half a million of money. A novel 1 Exemplar
Miss Carew 1 Exemplar
My brother's wife 1 Exemplar
Works of Amelia Edwards 1 Exemplar
A Lady's Captivity Among Chinese Pirates 1 Exemplar
My Brother's Ghost Story 1 Exemplar
The Engineer 1 Exemplar
An Engineer's Story 1 Exemplar
Short Ghost and Horror Collection 067 1 Exemplar
Zugehörige Werke
The Penguin Book of Ghost Stories: From Elizabeth Gaskell to Ambrose Bierce (2010) — Mitwirkender — 145 Exemplare
Delphi Complete Works of Charles Dickens (Illustrated) (2011) — Mitwirkender, einige Ausgaben — 77 Exemplare
The Phantom Coach: A Connoisseur's Collection of Victorian Ghost Stories (The Connoisseur's Collections) (1900) — Mitwirkender — 57 Exemplare
The Lifted Veil: The Book of Fantastic Literature by Women 1800-World War II (1806) — Mitwirkender — 42 Exemplare
More Deadly than the Male: Masterpieces from the Queens of Horror (2019) — Mitwirkender — 30 Exemplare
The Valancourt Book of Victorian Christmas Ghost Stories, Volume Five (2021) — Mitwirkender — 29 Exemplare
Masters of the Macabre: An Anthology of Mystery, Horror, and Detection (1975) — Mitwirkender — 13 Exemplare
Dead Drunk: Tales of Intoxication and Demon Drinks: 41 (British Library Tales of the Weird) (2023) — Mitwirkender — 7 Exemplare
Roads of Destiny: And Other Tales of Alternative Histories and Parallel Realms: 43 (British Library Tales of the Weird) (2023) — Mitwirkender — 5 Exemplare
Murder by gaslight, Victorian tales — Mitwirkender — 3 Exemplare
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Wissenswertes
- Rechtmäßiger Name
- Edwards, Amelia Ann Blanford
- Geburtstag
- 1831-06-07
- Todestag
- 1892-04-15
- Begräbnisort
- St Mary's Church, Henbury, Bristol, England, UK
- Geschlecht
- female
- Nationalität
- UK
- Geburtsort
- London, England, UK
- Sterbeort
- Weston-super-Mare, Somerset, England, UK
- Wohnorte
- Westbury-on-Trym, Bristol, England, UK
- Ausbildung
- at home
- Berufe
- Journalistin
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Ägyptologin - Beziehungen
- Betham-Edwards, Matilda (cousin)
- Organisationen
- Egypt Exploration Society (co-founder, 1882)
Edwards Chair of Egyptology, University College London (bequest) - Kurzbiographie
- Amelia B. Edwards was born in London and educated at home by her mother. She began to write at a young age, publishing her first poem at age 7 and her first story at 12. She went on to publish a variety of poetry, stories, and articles in a large number of British magazines and newspapers. She published her first novel, My Brother's Wife, in 1855, but it was Barbara's History (1864), a novel about bigamy, that made her famous. She also wrote ghost stories, including the often-anthologized "The Phantom Coach" (1864). In the winter of 1873–74, accompanied by several friends, Edwards visited Egypt, where she developed a fascination with the country and its cultures, both ancient and modern. After returning home, she wrote a travelogue with hand-drawn illustrations called A Thousand Miles up the Nile (1877), which became an immediate bestseller. Edwards now became a devoted advocate for research and preservation of the ancient Egyptian monuments and, in 1882, co-founded the Egypt Exploration Fund (now the Egypt Exploration Society) with Reginald Stuart Poole of the British Museum. Following the publication of her hit novel, Lord Brackenbury (1880), she abandoned her other literary work to concentrate solely on Egyptology. Edwards contributed entries to the 9th edition of the Encyclopædia Britannica, to the American supplement of that work, and to the Standard Dictionary. She went on a lecture tour of the USA in 1889–90, and these lectures were later published under the title Pharaohs, Fellahs, and Explorers (1891). On her death, Edwards bequeathed her valuable collection of Egyptian antiquities and her library to University College London, together with a sum of £2,500 to found an Edwards Chair of Egyptology.
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“We talked on an extraordinary variety of subjects, I distinctly recollect a long argument on mushrooms-mushrooms, murders, racing, cholera; from cholera we came to sudden death, from sudden death to churchyards, and from churchyards, it was naturally but a step to ghosts.” (Quotation from “Number Ninety”, pos. 3878)
Theme and Genre
A collection of classic Victorian and Edwardian ghost stories about inexplicable, supernatural, spooky experiences, written by different authors.
Conclusion
A perfect collection for dark winter evenings, giving you spine-tingling feelings. Very different stories and different writing styles make this book a thrilling, enjoyable reading.… (mehr)