WRITER

Amelia Edwards

1831 - 1892

Amelia Edwards

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

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Amelia Edwards has received more than 146,061 page views. Her biography is available in 17 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 16 in 2019). Amelia Edwards is the 4,945th most popular writer (down from 4,316th in 2019), the 3,601st most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 3,192nd in 2019) and the 412th most popular British Writer.

Memorability Metrics

150k
Page Views (PV)
47.71
Historical Popularity Index (HPI)
17
Languages Editions (L)
3.73
Effective Languages (L*)
2.55
Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Notable Works

A thousand miles up the Nile

Description and travel, Pyramids, Travel

In 1873, English novelist Amelia Edwards left the cosmopolitan comfort of Cairo's Shepherd's Hotel to venture up the Nile in a hired <i>dehabeeyah</i> - a boat replete with a crew of twenty men, drawing rooms, servants, a piano and high tea. Accompanied by such intriguing characters as the "Painter" and the "Happy Couple", Miss Edwards sailed off on a leisurely thousand-mile voyage to fragrant marketplaces, mud-walled villages, shadowy nomads, Nubian belles, and the tombs of long forgotten kings. First published in 1877, her account of the voyage became an enduring travel classic and this intrepid Victorian lady traveler went on to occupy England's first chair of Egyptology.

1878

Monsieur Maurice

2003

Murder Most Foul

Detective and mystery fiction

The fruit at the bottom of the bowl / Ray Bradbury Murder! / Arnold Bennett The kennel / Maurice Level We knows you're busy writing / Edmund Crispin A thousand deaths / Jack London Back for Christmas / John Collier Before the party / W. Somerset Maugham [Tell-tale Heart](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL41059W) / Edgar Allan Poe The evidence of the alter-boy / Georges Simenon The hand / Guy de Maupassant Tickled to death / Simon Brett Miss Marple tells a story / Agatha Christie Browdean Farm / A.M. Burrage A nice touch / Mann Rubin Light verse / Isaac Asimov Composed of cobwebs / Eddy C. Bertin [The Boscombe Valley mystery](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL14930212W) / Sir Arthur Conan Doyle The man who knew how / Dorothy L. Sayers The hands of Mr. Ottermole / Thomas Burke You got to have brains / Robert Bloch How the third floor knew the Potteries / Amelia B. Edwards The invisible man / G.K. Chesterton The hound / William Faulkner Three is a lucky number / Margery Allingham First hate / Algernon Blackwood The victim / P.D. James The mistery of the sleeping-car express / Freeman Wills Crofts Moxon's master / Ambrose Bierce The basket chair / Winston Graham The drop of blood / Mor Jokai

1984

Mugby Junction

Classic Literature, Fiction, Railroad stations

"You'll have, sir," said the guard, glistening with drops of wet, and looking at the tearful face of his watch by the light of his lantern as the traveller descended, "three minutes here."

1866

Thousand Miles up the Nile

Egypt, description and travel, Nile river and valley, Description and travel

2010

In the Days of My Youth

2004

Page views of Amelia Edwards by language

Over the past year Amelia Edwards has had the most page views in the English wikipedia edition with 28,856 views, followed by Spanish (3,178), and German (2,142). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are English (61.54%), Swedish (60.56%), and Finnish (58.70%)