Erection date: 19/3/2015
Amelia Edwards, 1831 - 1892, Egyptologist and writer, lived here.
English Heritage
WC1, Wharton Street, 19
At the unveiling Professor Sir Christopher Frayling said "This blue plaque marks the family home where she came to maturity as a writer, and where she displayed the appetite for knowledge and learning on which her pioneering work on Egyptology was based."
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Amelia Edwards
Egyptologist, novelist, journalist, traveller. Born Colebrook Row, Islington....
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Amelia Edwards
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