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Amelia Edwards

1831 - 1892

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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. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Amelia Edwards is the 4,675th most popular writer (up from 4,945th in 2019), the 3,673rd most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 3,602nd in 2019) and the 397th most popular British Writer.

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Among writers, Amelia Edwards ranks 4,675 out of 7,302. Before her are William Wharton, Agapius of Hierapolis, Jean-Baptiste-Louis Gresset, Shel Silverstein, Eliška Krásnohorská, and José Joaquín Fernández de Lizardi. After her are Maksim Tank, Mykola Zerov, Tomás Eloy Martínez, Bhalchandra Nemade, Chen Zi'ang, and Alfredo Zitarrosa.

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Among people born in 1831, Amelia Edwards ranks 89. Before her are Archibald Scott Couper, Reinhold Begas, Ippolito Nievo, Eduard von Martens, Fran Levstik, and Ludvig Norman. After her are Hedwig Dohm, Filippo Marchetti, George Nares, Frederick Townsend Ward, Paul du Bois-Reymond, and Ignatius L. Donnelly. Among people deceased in 1892, Amelia Edwards ranks 72. Before her are Ludvig Holstein-Holsteinborg, Archibald Scott Couper, Dimitrie Brătianu, Henri Duveyrier, Henry Edward Manning, and Joaquín Jovellar y Soler. After her are Robert Franz, Ernestine Rose, Jay Gould, Sereno Watson, Dimitrios Valvis, and Johan Sverdrup.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Amelia Edwards ranks 3,674 out of 8,785. Before her are Nik Kershaw (1958), Patricia Medina (1919), Thomas Wentworth, 1st Earl of Strafford (1593), Alan Bullock (1914), Ethel Thomson Larcombe (1879), and Patrick Abercrombie (1879). After her are Karen Spärck Jones (1935), Dave Charlton (1936), Philip Hammond (1955), Henry Salt (1780), John Abbot (1751), and Dorothea Bate (1878).

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Among WRITERS In United Kingdom

Among writers born in United Kingdom, Amelia Edwards ranks 397. Before her are Winston Graham (1908), Robert Bolt (1924), Thomas Nashe (1567), Elizabeth Goudge (1900), Isaac Watts (1674), and George Crabbe (1754). After her are Richard Pococke (1704), Milo Yiannopoulos (1984), Reynold A. Nicholson (1868), Eleanor Farjeon (1881), Mary Elizabeth Braddon (1835), and Joe Abercrombie (1974).

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