The Adventurous Life of Amelia B. Edwards: Egyptologist, Novelist, Activist. Charlotte Cushman Society Lecture featuring Dr. Margaret C. Jones

We are thrilled to welcome Dr. Margaret C. Jones as our speaker for this year’s Charlotte Cushman Society lecture. Dr. Jones’s talk will be focused on her book, The Adventurous Life of Amelia B. Edwards: Egyptologist, Novelist, Activist (Bloomsbury, 2022). Edwards had a significant impact on the cultural landscape of Victorian England, both through her travel writing and her successful fiction. Later in life, she became a renowned historian specifically focused on ancient Egypt. Jones’s biography provides a deeper dive into Edwards’s life: her views on feminism, race, and animal rights, as well as her same-gender relationships with Ellen Rice Byrne, Lucy Renshaw, and Library Company shareholder Anne Hampton Brewster.

Created in 2018, the Charlotte Cushman Society is a group of donors dedicated to recovering and sharing LGBT history and will support on-going initiatives and exploration.

Hosted by the Charlotte Cushman Society and the Davida Tenenbaum Deutsch Program in Women's History