In which Carla explores a favorite horror author of Victorian England, and finds an marvelous polymath, an LGBTQ icon, and a woman who rescued ancient Egypt and explored terra incognita.

Show Notes:

Story read: “The Phantom Coach”, Amelia B. Edwards

Recommended Reading:

• The Collected Supernatural and Weird Fiction of Amelia B. Edwards 
• Crocodile on the Sandbank (Amelia Peabody no. 1) by Elizabeth Peters

https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/62851.Amelia_B_Edwards

Referenced episodes:

• 32: What the Dickens
• 47: Victorian Christmas: The Goblin and the Paw

Sources:

Egypt Exploration Fund: https://www.ees.ac.uk

Historic England: Amelia’s gravesite

University of Pennsylvania: 1 and 2

Brown University

historyswomen.com

 

 

 

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There Might Be Cupcakes Episode 58: Terra Incognita | Amelia B. Edwards, Victorian horror author, polymath, genius, explorer of the world, and self-taught Egyptologist. She not only wrote horrifying stories, she rescued ancient Egypt’s treasures from ruin and desecration. And she is an

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The link is to the kindle edition, but I believe B&N has is for this price, too.

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