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 most successful literary works included the ghost story "The Phantom Coach" (1864), the novels
Barbara's History (1864) and
Lord Brackenbury (1880), and the Egyptian travelogue
A Thousand Miles up the Nile (1877), which described her 1873–1874 voyage up the
Nile River. In 1882, she co-founded the Egypt Exploration Fund (now the
Egypt Exploration Society) and became its joint Honorary Secretary. In 1889–1890, she toured the United States lecturing on Egyptian exploration.