More Usefully Employed

Amelia B. Edwards, Writer, Traveller and Campaigner for Ancient Egypt

by Brenda Moon

Book cover: More Usefully Employed

Extent: 319 pages

Publisher: Egypt Exploration Society

Subjects: Ancient Egypt

Series: Occasional Publications

Series volume number: 15, 2

Language: English

(Hardback) (Out of print)

(December 2006)

ISBN: 9780856981692

Price: $12.00

Out of stock

A biography of Amelia B. Edwards (1831-1892), founder of the Egypt Exploration Fund, as it was originally known and today the Egypt Exploration Society. Edwards was a well-known novelist who became interested in preserving Egypt’s ancient monuments while on a cruise in 187374, the subject of her best-selling travel book ‘A Thousand Miles Up The Nile.’


A biography of Amelia B. Edwards (1831-1892), founder of the Egypt Exploration Fund, as it was originally known, and today the Egypt Exploration Society. Edwards was a well-known novelist who became interested in preserving Egypt’s ancient monuments while on a cruise in 1873-4, the subject of her best-selling travel book ‘A Thousand Miles Up The Nile’.

  • By (author) Brenda Moon