Thread by @CGraves88

This month marks 150 years since Amelia B Edwards travelled to Egypt with Lucy Renshaw where they made their famous voyage ‘A Thousand Miles Up the Nile’. Their journey in Egypt lasted until May 1874. To mark the occasion, I will be tweeting highlights from their journey. #ABE150

We know many of these dates thanks to a diary kept by Jenny Lane, maid to Lucy Renshaw, now kept @GriffithOxford. These dates, correlated with Amelia’s own account, paint a picture of travel in Egypt in the late 19th cent.
Read the diaries of Jenny Lane:
archive.griffith.ox.ac.uk/index.php/jenn…

Today, archives related to Amelia Edwards are found across the world. I have been privileged to work with colleagues @SomervilleOx, @GriffithOxford, and @PantheonJoy (📷) as well as @GawadHeba, Bianca Walther, and others in forming my own impressions of Amelia and her legacy.

These accounts preserve one side of the story – that of wealthy westerners voyaging on the Nile. In a new introduction to Amelia’s famous narrative, @Beket_Aten and I unpacked some of these stories.

Pick up a copy here:

Currently on sale at Christmas!🎄🎅bloomsbury.com/uk/thousand-mi…

If you’d like to know more about the legacy of Amelia Edwards, then check out @TheEES – the organisation she founded which continues to support and promote Egyptian cultural heritage today. ees.ac.uk

Side note: I will be referring to Amelia Edwards as 'Amelia' throughout – not out of disrespect, but familiarity. I wrote about this in the introduction to @TheEES reprint of A Thousand Miles Up the Nile...

For more information about the life of Amelia Edwards online, check out this brilliant entry by @trowelblazers: trowelblazers.com/2014/06/25/ame…

Or this piece from Breaking Ground @BrownUniversity here: brown.edu/Research/Break…

To read about Amelia's sexuality, as researched by (the amazing!) Bianca Walther, read more here:
You'll find Bianca over on Instagram too - go find her!biancawalther.de/amelia-edwards…

And, alongside @TheEES A Thousand Miles Up the Nile, you will also find the latest biography of Amelia Edwards by Margaret Jones available @BloomsburyBooks here:
Brilliant companion reading pieces!bloomsbury.com/uk/adventurous…

Another angle, situating Amelia Edwards in a wider context of pioneerings women in the UK can be found by @PascalTheatreCo project, Women for Women:
pascal-theatre.com/biographies/am…

Finally (for now): you'll also find a lot about Amelia's trip up the Nile in @theAliceRoberts, 'Ancient Egypt by Train', currently available in the UK on @Channel4
channel4.com/programmes/anc…